[ale] Matrimonial --> spam problem

Rod Young development at combiz.net
Sun Sep 24 11:53:06 EDT 2000


What are the ethics of just overloading their mail ststem with scripts.
I know that may seem gosh or even be illeagle. But so should spamming.

Frank Zamenski wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Rickman" <jonathan at xcorps.net>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 8:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Matrimonial
>
> > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Aiswarya wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > We  have pleasure to  invite you to visit  the  biggest  and   fast
> growing   Indian  matrimonial website.
> > >
> > >                       http://www.Indiaoptions.com
> > >
> >
> > OK...I can only take so much. Maybe it is about time to look into some
> > spam blocking for the list. This has gotten a bit out of hand over the
> > last few days. It's just a matter of time before they subscribe to the
> > list and start harvesting member addresses. At that point I'm afraid the
> > list might die a slow death, and I'd really hate to see that happen.
> > --
> > Jonathan Rickman
> > X Corps Security
> > http://www.xcorps.net
> >
>
> I agree. The last thing I want is to be harvested by more idiot spammers.
> Yet
> this spamming trend may lead to two distasteful choices: unsubscribe, or,
> the
> useage of a bogus address. Leaving would make me feel like I gave in to the
> low-lifes, which would just irk the hell out of me! But I also don't want to
> feel
> like I have to 'hide' within an otherwise high-caliber and professional list
> like
> this one, either.
>
> --fgz
>
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