Re: Ad:UK offer (etc)

Robert Lyons (boblyons@umich.edu)
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:41:12 -0500

Deb Grove wrote:
>
> I would never purchase an item that came through a SPAM.
> You are not welcome in doing this.

Unfortunately, replying to spammers is generally useless.
This is even true when they invite you to send email to
get removed from their mailing list. It's just a ploy to
verify a valid email.

I apologize for this is off-topic, but perhaps the readers
of this list would take a moment to read the abuse.net web
sites:

http://spam.abuse.net ... tells why spam is bad

http://www.abuse.net ... what you can do to stop it.

It is not merely an annoyance, like postal junk mail.
Spammers are stealing resources and time from us.

Bob Lyons

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Robert Lyons, Ph.D.
Director, DNA Sequencing Core
University of Michigan
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