Sellam Ismail wrote: I've noticed a tremendous increase in spam since the first of the year, so it doesn't surprise me that this list is being hit. Most of it is coming from out of the US domains. Personally, I like the idea of a targeted missile hit on the ISPs who are repeat offenders.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 09 Feb 2002 01:07 am, Don Maslin wrote: How many spams are actually sent from Hotmail or Yahoo? (As opposed to having forged From: fields)? Dan - -- dankolb(a)ox.compsoc.net - --I reserve the right to be completely wrong about any comments or opinions expressed; don't trust everything you read above--

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Dan Kolb wrote: A lot from Hotmail, not so many from Yahoo. The problem with both is that it's trivial to get an account. Doesn't matter a lot if they TOS you 6 hours later. In my experience, Yahoo seems to respond more decisively to complaints. They also DON'T give out their own information. I have a Yahoo account I always use for registering for things like free RealPlayer, VMware betas & trials, etc. I don't use that address for any other traffic. It gets zero spam, except what Real & VMware send me. Doc

I guess I wasn't the only one that got that advertisement that uses the list's routing then.... => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Marvin Johnston => Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:13 PM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: Spam Re: IBM HDDs for sale => => => => Sellam Ismail wrote: => > => > You will all equally suffer the blight of spam that will increasingly => > invade this mailing list. Your collective inaction makes you => deserve it. => => I've noticed a tremendous increase in spam since the first of the year, => so it doesn't surprise me that this list is being hit. Most of it is => coming from out of the US domains. Personally, I like the idea of a => targeted missile hit on the ISPs who are repeat offenders. =>