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Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 02:17:45 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Craig A. Huegen wrote:
The "IEMMC" crap that Sanford Wallace promoted was also an engine to generate addresses for spam use. I know of a few people (including myself) who tested this theory by using a very old account from which we
That's not a valid test. Lists of addresses, many of them very old, get used for spam all the time. I used to get spam via a school mainframe account I'd not used for several years. That account had never done usenet and was on very few if any mailing lists. When IEMMC came out, I did a real test. I created a new account never used for anything. I jumped through their hoops Jun 18, 1997, and got confirmation I was on their remove list. That account still has not been spammed. It has gotten one message that could be interpreted as hate mail, but that's all: --
From mhobach () CYBERLYNK NET Sat Aug 9 23:53:19 1997
Return-Path: <mhobach () CYBERLYNK NET> Received: from powerpromo.com (ren.southwindnet.com [207.7.22.2]) by irc.aohell.org with SMTP id XAA19588 for <#####@aohell.org>; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 23:53:10 -0400 From: mhobach () CYBERLYNK NET Message-Id: <199708100353.XAA19588 () irc aohell org> Received: from [205.229.48.18] by powerpromo.com (SMTPD32-4.0) id AB9BDB40106; Sat, 09 Aug 1997 22:55:07 -0500 Subject: go away Date: Sat, 9 Aug 97 22:56:06 CST6CDT Status: O and die -- The username is obviously not #####...I just didn't want it to be known. Maybe I added the account to the remove list too early, maybe they had it going to /dev/null...who knows? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis () fdt net> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update Greg A. Woods (Oct 19)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update J.D. Falk (Oct 19)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update Craig A. Huegen (Oct 19)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update Jon Lewis (Oct 19)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update Craig A. Huegen (Oct 19)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update J.D. Falk (Oct 20)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update Steve Mansfield (Oct 21)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update Jon Lewis (Oct 21)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update Craig A. Huegen (Oct 19)
- Re: Web Biz Universal Remove List Update NetSurfer (Oct 20)
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