[Gllug] regular spam

[Justin Perreault]

On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 02:41 +0100, Justin Perreault wrote:
> I am not sure why I missed the original posting. So I am responding
> here.
> 
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:15 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> > Lucy Peters wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Can you help me to unsubscribe from them?
> > 
> > No.  Never, ever respond in any way to any spam message - it merely
> > confirms that your mail account is live and being read and thus gives
> > more reason for you to get more spam.
> 
> Yes to what everyone else is saying about not responding to the email.
> 
> I have started reporting abuses to the likes of yahoo and gmail. Simply
> forward the email to abuse at yahoo.com or whatever major free email
> provider. They generally respond with an auto generated response so I am
> guessing that if enough complaint come in for an address they look into
> it. It might not help but hopefully it does.

Forgot to specify, I am sending spam from yahoo accounts to yahoo and
gmail ones to gmail. Hence their interest as it goes against their ToCs.

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