Re: My Sincerest Apology

Dear Catherine,

I apologize profusely.  I guese I don't know what I'm doing.  Your
program wacks about 90-95% of my junk mail.  I can't thank you enough,
and have reccomended your program to many others.

The lists I cc'd to I found in one of your old htm files I had stashed
locally.

I just got bombarded by this person, couldn't get a net-block read from
internic to make a complaint, and just kinda shotgunned it, figuring
some how it would get fixed.

The last thing I want to do, is dis-enfranchise friendly resources for
killing spam.

Please let me know how I can get this right.  I have a couple of other
messages similar to yours, and I feel like I'm really in the tall grass
here.

As I recall, I installed your lite version of procmail.  One of the
other compaintants sugested modifying the reciepe ... he was the kindest

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This will delete all mail from up(_at_)uplinkpro(_dot_)com(_dot_)  The 
following will
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Felix Tilley
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I'll have to review this when I'm fresher ... it's late ... 
anyway, Catherine, please let me know what is appropriate protocal ...
that is how to get this jerk into the spam kill system, without pissing
everybody off.

BTW, I do not presently have access to the best newsgroups.  I have been
working on my ISP (I'm 3 hrs north of the city) to give a me static IP
address so I can again get access.  I don't know if that would have made
a difference, but barring that, I just plain don't have any excusses
except ignorance.

Your progarm whacks about 300K to 400K /mo into MendoNet

Thank You and All The Best

Jon Hollcraft
mailto:killspam(_at_)mendonet(_dot_)com
(707) 984-8400


 

Catherine Hampton wrote:
> Jon -- what on =EARTH= do you think you are doing, sending a spam complaint
> to two mailing lists, particularly to three mailing lists -- the Procmail
> list and List-Mom lists (which I'm on, but at the moment am not reading)
> and the Orthodoxy list at Best Internet, which I moderate.  (The Orthodoxy
> list software fortunately knows to reject email from people not on the
> list.)
>
> I am entirely in favor of complaining about spam, and do so, but this
> Cc: list is unacceptable and itself abusive.  I think you owe me, and
> the readers of the Procmail list (which isn't sophisticated about such
> things and let this off-topic email pass), an apology.
>
> --
> Catherine Hampton <ariel(_at_)tempest(_dot_)boxmail(_dot_)com>
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> > From procmail-request(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de  Sun Feb 22 
> > 23:39:02 1998
> Received: from proxy1.ba.best.com 
> (root(_at_)proxy1(_dot_)ba(_dot_)best(_dot_)com [206.184.139.12]) by 
> shell3.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with ESMTP id XAA03417; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 
> 23:37:58 -0800 (PST)
> Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 
> (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by proxy1.ba.best.com 
> (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with ESMTP id XAA16835; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:37:31 -0800 (PST)
> Received: (from lists(_at_)localhost)
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>         Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:48:17 +0100 (MET)
> Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:48:17 +0100 (MET)
> Message-ID: <34F10ED8(_dot_)1B5C(_at_)mendonet(_dot_)com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:53:28 -0800
> From: Jon Hollcraft <webmaster(_at_)mendonet(_dot_)com>
> Reply-To: webmaster(_at_)mendonet(_dot_)com
> Organization: Cahto Peak Communications
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I)
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: up(_at_)uplinkpro(_dot_)com
> CC: abuse(_at_)best(_dot_)com, listmom-talk(_at_)skyweyr(_dot_)com, 
> orthodoxy(_at_)lists(_dot_)best(_dot_)com,
>         procmail(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de
> Subject: STOP SENDING THIS SPAM SHIT
> References: 
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