[Gllug] Urgent

[Steve Nicholson]

On 30 Nov 2002 10:57:03 +0000 John Winters wrote:

> This is the one kind of UBE I do respond to and am thinking of setting
> up an auto-responder.  They're unique in that they do actually tend to
> have a real reply-to address.  If everyone responded, either with a
> simple, "No thanks" or something more direct, the senders would be
> thoroughly overwhelmed and it might discourage them.

I responded to one a week ago advising them "no thanks and that I had forwarded their message on the the US secret service that deals with these scams as well as complaining to their ISP.  Better luck next time and best they remove my address from their list."  Haven't had another one since and the address it was sent to was majordomo at cycling.org which used to be used for mailing lists.   As you say, if everyone replied to them since they give a valid email address telling them we know what they are up and telling everyone else it may help discourage them.  At least it might be one type of spammer we may be able to get rid of.

Steve.

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