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Date:      Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:56:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
To:        pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RESPONSE FROM CYBERPROMO
Message-ID:  <199610071856.LAA05982@athena.tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <199610071725.CAA11736@al.imforei.apana.org.au> from Peter Childs at "Oct 8, 96 02:55:52 am"

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According to Peter Childs:
> In article <199610071658.MAA16466@cyberpromo.com> you wrote:
> 
> : Version 9-30-96:
> : Cyber Promotions has started to implement stricter Terms of Service
> : policies WITH TEETH.  We have just recently terminated several accounts for
> : abuse of our policies.  (Updated TOS at end of message).
> 
>  These guys keep filling my mailbox up with this stuff... again, and
>  again and again.
> 
>  I've followed all the instructions to stop getting their crap
>  but they are really starting to annoy me.
> 
>  Just for interest "cyberpromo.com" is running BSDI.
> 
>  Someone drop a large bomb on them please.  Or someone with a large
>  newsfeed just pipe it via their mailbox.
> 

	Call me an elitist if you wish, but I like ye olden days
	of 18 to 20 months ago much better.  

	There must be a way to let all of the new, eager entrepreneurs
	with dollar-signs in their eyes to co-exist with the rest of
	us.  

	Probably the largest part of the problem---well, maybe equivalent
	with the near gridlock---has to do with junk mailings like this
	one from ``Cyber Promotions.''    Sometimes a civil rap on the
	knuckles works.  I don't think this junk mail is one of those.

	Eventually, I expect the larger net community will circle their
	wagons and come up with one solution; or a small subset.  Until
	then, however, we need some kind of filter (for those of us who
	run Elm) or a procmail script (for whoever has that set up).
	The filter or script would bounce any junk mail back automatically
	marked: RETURNED-UNREAD.

	Anybody on the list familiar with procmail scripting?  Have any
	other, better, easier solutions??

	gary kline

> 




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