RE: Junk mail: printed and otherwise

["Bill Strand" <strand@pacsim.com>]

Kenton,

If you are using Microsoft Outlook, you can use the "Junk mail" function to
build a list of email addresses from which junk mail historically has come
from. They are then automatically removed from the email queue. As I
subscribe to a wide range of on-line services, I use this quite often.

Over time I have found that junk mail comes in "spurts" after I subscribe to
a new on-line service. Since subscribing to Vision 2020 about six weeks ago,
I found that I needed to add over 80 new junk mail addresses. It seems
fairly obvious to me that you are correct - someone has figured out how to
procure this list without our permission.

Sincerely,

Bill Strand


-----Original Message-----
From:	Kenton Bird [mailto:kbird@uidaho.edu]
Sent:	Monday, December 04, 2000 3:30 PM
To:	vision2020@moscow.com
Subject:	Junk mail: printed and otherwise

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