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Jonathan Chen wrote:

>Anyone notice that any email abuse reports to abuse@earthlink.net will
>immediately bounce back with a message that basically says that:
>
>    "It's not from us, don't bother us"
>  
>

No; but it's hardly surprising.  Perhaps you should set your
subject line to "Acquisition Proposal", sign your mail
"Steve Balmer*, MSFT**" and route it though mailb.microsoft.com  ...

I guess the real question is, "does anybody care about the
end-user" these days ... and the answer probably is, "yes ---
the billing department".

Kevin Kinsey

*any resemblance to real persons or entities that have more
"l"'s in their name is somewhat purely accidental ...

**"Must Shackle Free Trade" or something like that, so I've heard...