Deal with it. It's not difficult.

Install your own filters if you have to.

-----Original Message-----
Mark Buettemeier
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 11:57 PM
Subject: [M]: RE: RE: MAPUG admin: good news / bad news


NO THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ALREADY GET ENOUGH SPAM MAIL AND DON'T WANT TO WEAR OUT MY DELETE KEY ANY
FASTER THAN IT IS ALREADY!

> ----------
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 8:41 PM
> Subject: [M]: RE: MAPUG admin: good news / bad news
>
> Why not just let them through and leave it up to the end users to delete
> them. It really is our responsibility, not yours, to deal with the spam
> that hits our mailboxes.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> JohnLX200
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 11:13 PM
> Subject: [M]: MAPUG admin: good news / bad news
>
>
> Some good news and some bad news:
>
> First, the good news: Thank you all for the civil tone on the list lately.
> You are even forgiven for the excessive OT banter in exchange for the good
> behavior.
>
> Next, the bad news:
>
> Apparently mapug has found its way onto a serious SPAM mailing list. It's
> currently at a workable volume, but is rapidly accelerating, making me
> suspect
> that we've made it onto some list of "57 million email addresses for $99"
> and
> is being spread around. I don't believe it is a deliberate attack upon
> the
> list, just the usual get-rich-quick emails, porno website promotion, etc.
>
> I'd use the Majordomo list server's capabilities to block it, if from
> predictable addresses, but it's coming in from reasonable-looking
> addresses,
> mostly but not all on AOL, and there are way too many MAPUG members on AOL
> for
> me to just block email from AOL anyway. Not to mention that it would
> block
> ME
> ;-)
>
> Luckily, it all bounces to my shore.net account without hitting the list,
> so
> you don't get to read all these creative pitches like I do. I'm concerned
> that the number of bounced SPAM emails is approximately tripling with each
> wave of junk every 12-24 hours, so the trend is "going parabolic" on us.
>
> If anyone knows of a good method to deal with it (beyond forwarding them
> to
> the abuse department at each ISP, which is a losing battle in this case
> where
> multiple new sources keep springing up) please privately email me.
>
> As it could be serious enough to bring my shore.net account (and therefore
> MAPUG) down, I've taken the precaution of saving all your email addresses
> as
> currently subscribed to mapug and mapug-digest so that, worst case, I
> could
> change the name of the list and subscribe all of you to the new list.
> Perhaps
> shore.net could rename the list without unsubscribing/subscribing
> everyone,
> but I haven't checked that out yet.
>
> I don't know that anything this drastic will be necessary, but wanted to
> give
> you all advance notice just in case the list comes down for a few days.
> This
> is by far the most ominous series of SPAM attacks we've had so far, but
> don't
> worry, I'll be able to deal with it one way or another.
>
> On a separate note, newsgroups will have vastly more SPAM starting on
> April
> 3,
> due to a boycott by SPAM-canceling administrators who are feeling that
> more
> of
> the burden should be taken on by ISPs. The boycott has no effect upon
> MAPUG,
> but those of you following s.a.a. may soon be looking back on "the good
> old
> days" for a while too.
>
> John Hopper
> MAPUG administrator
>

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