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Re: New kind of spam?



On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Stas Bekman wrote:

> After sending a message to linux-il I've got this:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun Jan 11 10:47:32 1998
> From: MailPush Support <support@necs.co.il>
> To: Stas Bekman <sbekman@iil.intel.com>
> Subject: MailPush confirmation of off-linee-mail notification
> 
> [yzhaki@mail.geocities.com] Was notified of your e-mail message [[linux-biz] Good article on benefit of source availibility (fwd)]
> By: Phone Call  At: Sun Jan 11 10:47:32 1998
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Would you like to be notified off-line of new e-mail message ?
> Sign up for FREE MailPush, which can do almost anything you like.
> You'll never have to check for new mail in your mail box again.
> 
> http://www.mailpush.com
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Why should I care about yzhaki getting a note of my email??? It's a
> list!!!
> 
> Tomorrow 100 people on the list will get this service up, so any time I'll
> send to the list - I'll get 100 emails? This is crazy!!! See their ad -
> it's FREE!!! This is a free nightmare!
> I know that It should be blocked as any other spam, but it seems that I'll
> spend most of my time to block these things.
I agree totally. I am getting ALOT of these messages too, (we are getting
it from people receiving postmaster notifys from our mailserver and from
mailing lists).
I tried to talk to the mailpush people but the say that these customers
specficly requested this service, and are paying for it. and they won't
remove it.
I seriously consider to put a procmail rule to forward this mail to
necs.co.il contacts whenever I get it.
currently I just:
#From: MailPush Support <support@necs.co.il>
:0
* ^From.*MailPush.Support.*
/dev/null



> 
> Doesn't list software can't handle these issues?
> 
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