Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <009201c1524e$8f54ca70$5a66323f@amr.corp.intel.com> From: "Tim Prince" To: "Charles Wilson" , "Andreas Eibach" Cc: References: <01090508544004.01602@pessard.research.canon.com.au> <20010904221839.A12254@redhat.com> <005b01c151b5$6641c000$221007d5@andreas> <3BC5315B.8090407@ece.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: SPAM - Re: (((((((-= Enter To Win One of 25 Dream Vacations!! =-))))))) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 05:16:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Wilson" To: "Andreas Eibach" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:42 PM Subject: Re: SPAM - Re: (((((((-= Enter To Win One of 25 Dream Vacations!! =-))))))) > Sigh. I *know* I shouldn't extend this thread, but I just can't help > myself. > > > The point: we all hate spam. Chris does as good a job as he can > manually blocking spammer's mail address -- but that's like playing > whack-a-mole. Stuff will get through. Just hit 'd' and move on. If you have 2 minutes to spare, why not identify the originating ISP and forward to their abuse site, if any? The filters appear to block successfully most of the spam from ISP's who lack any spam control. A few even respond with thanks for prompt identification of abuse. If there is to be an FAQ entry, it could point to advice on use of IP-whois. My state atty general office is authorized to prosecute certain types of spam intentionally directed at state residents. If cygwin@cygwin.com were on that list, they would consider anything sent to us as qualifying as intentional. Of course, there is probably more down side than up to being on such a list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/