Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:49:39 +0100 (MET) - Message No. 2343
From: Michael Dipper

Subject: Re: Spam - careful!


From: Marc Luethi 
Subject: Re: Spam - careful!

At 13:23 11.03.98 +0100, you wrote:
>Ooops! Be careful Phoebus, flaming a spammer could be dangerous. They might
>subscribe you to a few hundred mailing lists as a revenge act. I usually
>only return the spam I get and refrain from further attacks. 

Don't even return any spam at all!

This gives the spammer the possibility to classify your address as
"correctly working" and take it into his list of "better addresses", go
figure!

All you can do is forward the spam to the spammers provider (usually
abuse@provider.com), install your own filter or subscribe to a filtering
email-service.

And hope that there's no more of it... 

Greets

Marc

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