[SGVLUG] E-mail "stamps" -- someone finally did it, it seems...

[serross at ix.netcom.com]

Earthlink has this feature. They tell users to make an exception list but few do. I'm with you, delete them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Schwarz <stan at iron.gps.caltech.edu>
Sent: Oct 21, 2005 3:35 PM
To: sgvlug at sgvlug.net
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] E-mail "stamps" -- someone finally did it, it seems...

> On 10/21/05, Dustin <laurence at alice.caltech.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 serross at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > > I would send a reply telling this person they have ONE day to remove
> > > dumbness OR just replt with a billing for $50,000.00 for the privlidge
> >
> > Wow, that's even grumpier than what I was going to say (which was dump
> > them and maybe blacklist them so they can't sign up again--I would *NOT*
> 
> Sense I am with the power to blacklist, if I get a similar message I
> will unsubscribe them.

Heh. I run the public earthquake notification mailing lists here,
and every so often after an earthquake I will get an auto-reply 
from some spam-blocking service asking me to click a link to
release the mail to someone or other. I just trash it.  If 
people are going to sign up for a mailing list, it's up to
them to set up their mailer to allow the mail in.

And don't even get me started on the "I'm on vacation" autoreplies.
I get hundreds of them after every earthquake. Pretty soon I'm
going to start unsubscribing addresses that send them.

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