SC - Thin is in . .. .lose the spam

[allilyn at juno.com]

It can get a LOT more tasteless!  I get spam that is obviously not
tailored to me.  What use do they think a late-middle-aged woman would
have for hot teen-aged nudes--or viagra, for that matter?  I also get
spam that begins "I saw your web site..." and I don't have a web site. 
Fortunately, there is less of it on juno that my commercial provider, but
more is coming, all the time.  I don't surf sites that carry pornography,
stocks, get rich quick schemes, or web sales to customers, so I don't
know why they'd all send ads.

It sometimes works to forward the offending mail to abuse at the original
address, but posters can fake those, somehow.  You can a nice post from
the postmaster, saying, "it didn't originate here..."

here's some of the info on latest ones: Return-path: <cqqul at hotbot.com>
To: sshar at aol.com   also Return-path: <mqris at hotbot.com>
To: jrqdm at aol.com

I don't even have an aol account, so how am I getting this spam?  I
deleted the offending ones that came to the list--don't know if the
hotbot.com figured in the address.


Regards,
Allison,     allilyn at juno.com


On Tue, 2 May 2000 09:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Jeanne Stapleton
<apiskp at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
>--- Peldyn at aol.com wrote:
>> If it hasn't come through majordomo, then how are we
>> getting it? This one was 
>> not only tasteless but insulting!! I would like to
>> find the author and fry 
>> his butt! So what is the best way to fry spam? Over
>> a high heat until it is 
>> charred black?
>> Peldyn
>> 
>My guess is that whoever's doing the advertising did
>some sort of search for all lists with words like
>"food", "cooks", etc....I'm not on general cooking
>newsgroups and mailing lists any more, due to lack
>of time, but this sort of tasteless drivel is not
>at all uncommon in such venues...

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