Re: Junk mail: printed and otherwise

[jason mcmunn <mcmunn@mmdt.com>]

As far as online spam goes...
1) If you think it's an honest reputable place sending you a legitimate
offer, and you send them a response following the instructions in the
email for removal, you will probably be removed.  
2) If you don't think it's legitimate/reputable/etc. Then don't respond at
all, because you are just confirming the fact that someone reads that
email account.  If you don't respond either way, they will assume it's a
dead/unused account and stop sending you email.
3) Many ISPs will subscribe to a Real Time Spam Block (RTSB) service that
will blacklist anyone that sends out massive spam like that and you will
never see the message in the first place.  If you run your own mail
server, it's not to hard to tie in to one of these services.

As far as the snail mail spam, I feel for you.  Because of my job title
(or maybe salary?) I get several requests for cards that are of such high
limit that I have no where near the credit to back them up.  So I get 3-5
a week, and no hope of getting them (not that I care, I live my whole life
with no credit cards).

jason

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Kenton Bird wrote:

> Visionaries:
> 1. In the past two months, I've received more than two dozen
> solicitations from credit card companies, offering my
> gold/platinum/plutonium Visas and MasterCards.  I regularly write to the
> Direct Mail Associations asking to be removed from mailing lists, but
> still the junk keeps coming.  Are others having this problem?  Any
> suggestions on how to stem the paper flow?
> 
> 2. Today, I have received four unsolicited "get rich quick" spam
> messages -- including one from Pakistan and one from Yugoslavia?  Has
> some address-retrieving software scanned the 2020 subscriber list on the
> web and condemned me to receive endless notices of chain letters?
> Help!   I've replied to the message demanding to be removed from the
> mailing list, but two replies came back as undeliverable.  What other
> recourse do we have to fend off this electronic onslaught?
> 
> thanks,
> Kenton
> 
>