11 Feb
2000
11 Feb
'00
1:02 p.m.
In my experience, the best course of action is simply to filter it out.
Responses do indeed verify that your address is valid; I once made the
mistake of doing just that, and it took about a week before I was getting
10x the amount of spam I had been previously.
The best proactive method of dealing with it is to report the forward the
message, with all the headers, to either spam(a)originatingdomain.com or
abuse(a)originatingdomain.com. I have to admit that I'm usually too lazy to
do this; the spam filters on the company's mail server do a good enough
job that I might get 2-3 spam messages per day at the most (as compared to
10-15 on my old earthlink account).
Cheers,
Aaron
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Allison J Parent wrote:
Thanks everyone.
I'm getting spammed and it's apparently from the opt-in thing that I'd
never opt-into!
Any solid suggestion how to shut this down. I firmly believe the "remove"
in these is fake or worse address validation. I wonder if the whole
remove this is bogus.
Allison
For example...
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