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  • From: "Dallas Smith" <dallas.smith AT pobox.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Suggestions for replying to Junk Mail
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:55:01 -0400


A friend of mine sent me these suggestions on getting rid of Junk Mail..

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Dallas Smith
dallas.smith AT pobox.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] RE: How I got rid of one spammer


> I have been waiting for an opportunity when all the circumstances are
> right to do something similar to those annoying telemarketers - you know
> the ones, those bastards who call you in the middle of dinner to sell
> you some new credit card or home burglar alarm service or whatever.
> First, if one of those guys were to call me when I am in front of my
> computer with a browser open, I would first ask him for his name,
> including last name, and then try to determine what city he is calling
> from. With some telemarketers that may not be possible, whereas with
> others that may not be out of the question. I would tell them that if
> they don't provide me that information then I would not be able to talk
> to them and just hang up. Then, if I do get that information from them,
> I would ask them to tell me all about whatever it is they are peddling,
> just to buy some extra time to go on the web and into the PeopleFinder
> page under bigyellow.com (or some equivalent site where you type in a
> person's name and city and it returns their address and phone number).
> Once I have that information, I would say something like, 'aren't you
> the John Doe who lives at 456 main street and isn't your number
> 919-123-4567?' If I get a startled hesitation from the guy at the other
> end, I would continue with something like 'well, I was just about to sit
> down and have dinner. How about I call you back at a more convenient
> time and then you can tell me more about your product. How does 3:00 am
> sound?'
>
> ;)
> Bill
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael S Czeiszperger [mailto:czei AT webperformanceinc.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:09 PM
> > To: InterNetWorkers
> > Subject: [internetworkers] How I got rid of one spammer
> >
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > My corporate email addresses recently kept receiving several
> > emails a week
> > from the same outfit trying to sell email mailing lists.
> > Yeah, I could have
> > just ignored them, but getting the same emails week after
> > week was starting
> > to bug me.
> >
> > Using spamcop to report it to their ISP didn't seem to help,
> > so I tried
> > following their unsubscribe instructions, which of course
> > didn't work either.
> >
> > The next step was to call the phone number listed and
> > complain. The person on
> > the other end was polite, and said the email addresses would
> > be removed. Yet,
> > wouldn't you know it the next day the same three emails
> > showed up, and
> > continued to show up in my mailbox.
> >
> > I waited a couple of weeks hoping it would just go away, but
> > no luck. The
> > following Sunday night at 10PM I checked my email, and seeing
> > the email show
> > up again, decided to call the phone number again and leave a
> > message letting
> > them know I wasn't pleased with the situation. Strangely
> > enough, the same guy
> > answered the phone. Since companies don't usually staff the
> > phones at 10PM on
> > a Sunday, I guessed this must be his home phone number.
> >
> > The next week the emails continued, so I hit upon the idea of
> > keeping his
> > phones tied up. Not only that, but given the time difference
> > he'd be getting
> > calls at 6AM in the morning :-) I simply configured my fax to
> > just dial his
> > number over and over. This isn't strictly legal, but I figured, hey,
> > accidents happened and I just typed in the wrong number.
> >
> > I sent email to all of the email addresses listed, offering
> > my services to
> > stop junk fax transmissions. All he had to do was remove the
> > following email
> > addresses and the faxes would stop. I used the same language
> > as in his
> > instructions for unsubscribing from the email "please allow
> > two weeks to
> > process your request" :-)
> >
> > I kept this up for two days, and never heard back, but the
> > emails have
> > stopped!
> >
> > - --
> > Michael Czeiszperger
> > Web Performance Inc.
> > Raleigh, NC
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> >
> >
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