Offtopic: Viruses & Spam

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 09:50:22 -0400
Message-Id: <10488.105049@fatcity.com>

To ALL,

    Alright, don't flame me for being off topic like this. But some months ago someone harvested the old mailing list and I for one started getting a LOT of spam messages, things like how to fleece the airlines into providing cheap seats. etc... You know that "too good to be true" stuff that comes with a price tag. Well like many I was upset (to put it mildly) and decided that just deleting it was not good enough. Therefore I started sending the messages back to 'abuse@<mail system>' for all of the hosts defined in the message. Since I started that, I've been happily receiving messages like the attached and the amount of SPAM has dropped dramatically. Therefore, some of you out there may want to do likewise.

Thanks for the patience.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Vicor Corporation

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Subject: Re: Fwd:Win, win...
Author: Yahoo Mail <abuse_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 5/4/00 8:11 PM

Thank you very much for reporting this incident to Yahoo!. Mass distribution of unsolicited email messages, or "spamming", violates the Yahoo! Terms of Service (TOS).

Although it does not appear that this message originated from the Yahoo! Mail system, there is a yahoo.com address within the message or message headers and we believe that this account is being used in connection with the unwanted email message. Consequently, we have taken appropriate action against this account as per our TOS.

Thank you for working with us to keep Yahoo! a friendly email environment. In the future, if you receive an unwanted email message that appears to derive from a Yahoo! Mail account, please forward the message directly to us at abuse_at_yahoo.com.

Thank you,
Yahoo! Customer Care

9011356

Original message follows:

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To Whom It May Concers,

    The attached SPAM was recieved this morning. All of you are referenced
somewhere in this message or as the spource of the spam (up39f_at_secofi.gob.mx). I do not appreciate this spamming.

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