Message-Id: <10488.105049@fatcity.com>
From: dgoulet@vicr.com
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 09:50:22 -0400
Subject: Offtopic: Viruses & Spam

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@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@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@secofi.gob.mx).  I do not appreciate this spamming.

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Subject:    Win, win...
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Date:       4/23/00 10:38 AM

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