Re: People e-mailing me

Crookesp (crookesp@aol.com)
10 Feb 1998 10:11:39 GMT

In article <34DEE8D9.24C9620C@ozemail.com.au>, David Johnson
<trainman@ozemail.com.au> writes:

>Persons with a return e-mail address of hotmail.com or aol.com need not
>bother
>e-mailing me. Due to excessive spam, these e-mails will be deleted
>automatically without being read.

Apologies for replying in the ng - for obvious reasons.

You should know that AOL is the world's biggest Internet service provider, with
more than 12 million accounts.Probybly a hundred thousand times as big as
ozemail.com.au. As a company, they are also leaders in the fight against spam,
with several successful prosecutions against spammers in the USA, where 99% of
all spam comes from..

If you get spam from AOL you should forward it to abuse@aol.net, who will take
action_if_ it came from aol.

But a lot of spammers fake the origin of their messages - look in the message
headers and you will see where the junkmail really came from.

It's your choice who you accept mail from - but as a user of aol I thought it
worth telling you that.

*Philip*