Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)

[Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul@pobox.com>]

> 
> On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> 
> > There are technological fixes which I would favor over attempts to ban
> > unwanted messages.
> 
> In the meantime, before these technological fixes are easily implemented,
> what is the proper way to handle unwanted commercial mail?
> 
> 1) delete immediately
> 
> 2) reply with 'Fuck off, morons!'
> 
> 3) as in 2) plus an attachment of some 1Mb file
> 
> 4) as in 3) plus a CC to the postmaster of the sending site
> 
> What if the spam says: 'Do only reply to this if you want
> further contact with us' etc?
> 
> Does anybody have good advice, including risks for retaliation
> from the vendors/postmasters for such 're-spam'?

Informal law! The first content line could be "This is un-solicited mail". 
Then the MTA will remove it. Sender who doesnot put this line in his spam 
should be mailbombed. Though this kind of arrangement doesn't mean that spam
is nice thing if it has the line in it. 

- Vipul