Wave of the Future

----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin P. Groot" <epgroot(a)ucdavis.edu> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 3:53 AM Subject: Re: Wave of the Future Right at first guess. Just crap. Spam. The quotation regards a bill that never made it into law, but lots of spammers keep quoting it anyway. Until the US cleans up it's act and makes it unlawful (with sufficiently scary penalties) to stop them advertising their crap to the entire universe you will see this garbage, relayed by various devious means, to whatever email addresses they can find and make into lists that are then sold to would be entrepreneurs. What pisses me off is that they are too stupid (and doubtless don't give a shit anyway) to remove non US addresses, we have to filter a host of irrelevant crap here at our mail server. Oh, and the 'remove' list either:- 1) doesn't exist 2) did exist but has been either flooded and closed or just closed by yahoo once someone tipped them off it was there. 3) is an address confirmation site, msging it confirms a 'live' email address and you get another flood of fresh spam. 4) both 2) and 3) above. The expressions "Ugly American" and "Yankee Trader" spring to mind.... Geoff in Oz