Re: UKNM: Re: marketing spam

[Ross Sleight]

Steve,


I wonder what the return actually is - in comparison to the return of

mailing interested parties? And the number of pissed off people who

would never touch your product or comapny again because they had to pay

to connect to download their spam..what is the loss of future business?

And what penalties you the spammer may have to pay?  One spam on one

network then banned or fined etc.  


I mean, Earthlink got USD 2 M from Wallace



http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,20583,00.html?st.ne.1.head


Surely ISP's are the way to stop spam - we'll never stop it at source

but this is a way (or Bigfoot :>?)


Just as Steve has, I attach an e-mail I sent to BT Net when I was

receiving spam consistently through last week from someone using their

service ...if we are encouraged to report spam then ISP's will

investigate (and stop it as this individual has stopped)...or we just

mailbomb the spammers...:>


Bests


Ross


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Subject: 

        RE: [Fwd: Congratulations - Were You a Winner?]

  Date: 

        Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:26:30 -0000

  From: 

        BT Internet Support <

supportbtinternet [dot] com

>

    To: 

        "

'rossseasynet [dot] co [dot] uk

'" <

rossseasynet [dot] co [dot] uk

>



Hello,

Thank you for sending this on to us, I have passed this on to be

investigated.


regards

Andrew

BT Internet Support


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From:   Ross Sleight[SMTP:

rossseasynet [dot] co [dot] uk

]

Sent:   25 March 1998 13:20

To:

webmasterbtinternet [dot] com

Subject:        [Fwd: Congratulations - Were You a Winner?]


Attached is a spammer using your service.  Please deal with it!


Thanks


Ross


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Subject: 

        Congratulations - Were You a Winner?

  Date: 

        Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:51:59 GMT

  From:

BigShotbtinternet [dot] com

    To:

BigShotbtinternet [dot] com

Subject:          Congratulations - Were You a Winner?



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