Re: spam

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> Can't you people do something about all the spam we get here,
> it's rather annoying.


Sure.  (Note that your message represents the third or fouth 
"spam-response" in the last week or so.  Hence I am finally goaded into 
responding in turn...I'll wait while you don your asbestos suit).

Step #1) don't respond to spam messages on list.  Everybody saw the 
spam.  Everybody is annoyed by the spam.  Please don't ADD to the @#$@! 
spam by responding to it.

Step #2) File a lawsuit against MAPS.  Their evil, dishonest tactics 
(such as pirate DNS-pollution) have succeeded in basically driving ORBS 
off the net.  (Having eliminated the competition, they then began 
charging for their service.  Previously, both MAPS and ORBS were free. 
Does this sound like any particular company you know <cough> Microsoft 
<cough>)

In the past, cygwin used ORBS.  But now we can't.  Thus the increase in 
spam.  However, I haven't noticed multiple spams from the same address 
(unless the multiples come VERY close together) -- so I assume that 
someone -- probably cgf -- is manually blocking each spammer.  Perhaps not.

But in any case, rest assured that the list maintainers are even MORE 
annoyed by the spam than you are, and are doing everything they can to 
stop it.  But PLEASE don't add to the problem by replying, on-list, to 
every spam that comes through the filter.

--Chuck



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