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Re: New kind of spam?



The answer is simple - we will explain to MailPush that their customers
are not wanted on this list and that we will remove from the list anyone
generating such messages and further more encourage every list we are
member or in charge of to do the same (and alert MailPush to this fact!)

In addition any mesage from them that does get to the list should be
forwarded together with a complaint to their postmaster.

You can be sure that this practice will disapear soon enough after their
customers begin to complain ...


Gilad.
Asher Frenkel wrote:
> 
> 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?
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Stas Bekman     mailto:sbekman@iil.intel.com [just another webmaster]
> > Home Page:      http://www.eprotect.com/stas
> > A must visit:         http://www.eprotect.com/stas/TULARC (Java,CGI,PC,Linux)
> > Linux-il Home:  http://www.linux.org.il/
> >
> >
> 
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