!!! Look at here for A LOT OF FAST CASH !!!

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tracer (koe...@loxinfo.co.th) wrote:
: In article <50q8bi$9s...@vunews.valpo.edu>, stu...@exodus.valpo.edu 
: says...
: > You know, I've just started looking through newsgroups and I've seen a 
: > lot of the "Get money quick and easy" files in there. Now I'm not sure, 
: > but I don't think that everyone on the Internet is a bunch of freaking 
: > idiots. Why keep insulting us with this garbage? It may not be illegal to 
: > post some of them, but it sure is annoying. STOP IT!!! 
: > 
: > 
: > Dave Stanford
: > dst...@athena.valpo.edu
: > 
: > 
: I agree. they should get rewarded with a message from anyone thinking the 
: same.
: No mailbombs, but if maybe 20000 people object to that rubbish which 
: should be in alt.con (g), and send those guys a LONG answer that that 
: stuff isnt apreciated, I think it will stop quick.
: We did the same thing in primary school with postcards.
: Ite never works, is mathematically impossible and its a ripoff.
: Also illegal in the USA but thats less important.
: Reward those rubbish producers(g).

Hi,

This IS spam; it is a chain letter involving money which is illegal in 
the USA.  The way to deal with this type of thing is to send a copy of 
the spam to take the userID off the spammer's email address and 
substitute the word postmaster.

For example, if the spammer email address is:

<jer...@aol.com>

Forward the spam to:

<pos...@aol.com>

I deliberately used AOL as an example--not because AOLers are the butt of 
so many net jokes--but because AOL is really good about shutting down the 
accounts of spammers.  If you think spam ticks you off, you ought to talk 
to some system adminstrators--especially some of those who are in big 
ISPs and handle only newsgroups.  BTW:  I usually insert "SPAMMER" in 
upper case as the first word in the subject header.  I often receive a 
daemon response followed a week or two later by another response advising 
me of the action taken.  Sometimes I get no response, but that doesn't 
mean no action was taken.

BTW, since <rec.arts.ascii> is moderated, there is no spam there.

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