[MacPerl] Junk Mail (Was: how to make some $$$ !?)

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

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Philippe writes:
>Are you guys getting this kind of junk too?

Yes. 

>How can we prevent it?

 - In the present case, the system administrator (of bonn-online.com; the
   message has nothing to do with AOL) has assured me that the account has been
   terminated at once.
 - In general: Write a letter of complaint to the postmaster of the sender.
   Make sure to identify the right postmaster, which is almost always the
   postmaster of the machine that sent the mail to bernina.ethz.ch or
   err.ethz.ch, which can be verified by the "Received:" header line. In
   the present case, the relevant line is:

Received: from circe.bonn-online.com (root@circe.bonn-online.com [195.52.214.66])
	by err.ethz.ch (8.8.8/8.8.8/IISmaster-1.76) with ESMTP id WAA19701;
	Sat, 22 Nov 1997 22:14:57 +0100 (MET)

   Do NOT, under any circumstances, send mail to the postmaster@ethz.ch or
   postmaster@iis.ee.ethz.ch, they are neither reponsible for the junk mail nor
   capable of preventing it, they are merely capable of turning off the
   mac-perl mailing list if it generates too many pointless complaints.

   Write only one letter per piece of junk mail. 800 reasonable letters of
   complaint from 800 subscribers will impress the postmaster more than a
   5000 letter mailbomb.
 - I run junk mail filters which weed out about 50% of the junk mail that would
   otherwise make its way onto the list.
 - Do NOT, under any circumstances, discuss junk mail on this list (discuss
   it with me if you absolutely feel like it). Do NOT repost junk mail to this
   list (it's not as if we need to get it REPEATED). BEFORE you engage in any
   measure against junk mail, consider which action will cause the least
   annoyance for your fellow subscribers and the least work for me.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
  "And I won this ribbon in a Degradation Contest at the Teheran
   meeting of Junkies Anonymous" -- William Burroughs, _The Naked Lunch_




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