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> Most of my posts are on internal IBM fora. Until lately (when my email id
> started appearing on external fora), I never received any spam. I now use
> two list servers: MQSeries List <MQSERIES@@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT> and
> Voice<voice-users@@voicerecognition.com> (of course). This introduced more
> spam, especially from voice-users. I am now also appending to comp.speech,
> and the spam is flooding in. The internet has many benefits, but this is
> definitely not one of them. It would be good if we could get rid of the
> spammers on voice-users.
I thought that _in theory_ only list members could post,
but that may be _in theory_.
-- I just live with spam because my username in on the Web anyway
and I can't do anything about that, but I know it really gets to
some people.
The only thing I know of that definitely stops spam is
a moderated list, where the owner -- or whoever --
checks all the posts, and I don't see that we can manage that.
BTW I just got a spam that seems to have been sent,
originally, from Compuserve: I'll try sending it to their
abuse dept.
> For any fora newbies: it is generally not a good idea to respond to spam in
> any way (ie. asking to be removed from a list). If you do, they know that
> there is a real person at the other end and will probably send you even
> more and/or forward your name to other spammers.
Yes :(
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Judy Evans jae2@@york.ac.uk
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