Re: Free Advertising For Your Business!

Angela c. Murphy (acmurphy@helix.nih.gov)
Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:29:27 -0500 (EST)

I looked at the complete headers, and the message apparently came from a
California dial-up account at earthlink.net. Since earthlink seems to be
unable or unwilling to get rid of such subscribers these days, I used
traceroute to find a domain upstream. That domain turned out to be
mci.net. I sent a complaint to mci.net, but a single complaint goes
nowhere. If many members of the ABRF send complaints to earthlink and
mci, that might get a response. We are lucky at ABRF that we only see a
few such messages. Matteo is right about seeing much junk in regular
email. It has become a pandemic, and outside of complaining about each
and every such message received, I cannot see a cure anytime soon.
Angela Murphy

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Matteo Villain wrote:

> Hi everyone, I checked this thing and I think it's horrible. This
> software let people send automatically advertising mail (junk) as if the
> junk that I receive in my regular mail is not enough. I don't know how
> this mailing list works, but I would like to know how this Bill was able
> to get here and if this bigbang@onebigbang.com is a real person. I know
> you can persecute people for this type of things.
> Talk you later
> Matteo
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just wanted to pass along some info about a new piece of software
> > I now call my "secret weapon". It's amazing! Listen to this...
> >
> > Me and hundreds of others can now reach "millions of potential
> > customers" - absolutley FREE! A lot of us are creating immediate
> > "cash flow explosions" - literally overnight! And blowing our
> > competition righ out of the water!
> >
> > You have to check this thing out. To get some details, all you
> > have to do is see my web site at:
> > http://world-space.ids.on.ca/users/harlandhills/freeadvert.htm
> >
> > Simple. Take care. I'll talk with you later.
> >
> > Bill:-)
>
> --
> Dr. Matteo Villain Phone + 205 934 3032
> Research Associate Fax + 205 934 1446
> Dep. Physiology and Biophysics
> University of Alabama at Birmingham
> 893 BHSB 1918 University Blvd., Birmingham, Al ,35294
> USA
>

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