At 07:41 06/03/00 -0800, you wrote:
>To those of you who join me in fuming at the following SPAM
>
>>>To be removed from this mailing list immediately press reply and
>>>enter REMOVE on the subject line.
>>>
>>>Would you like to be able to buy Computers and Software at
>>>wholesale?
>
>.....
>
>Do not forget NOT to send a "remove" to the ballads list, as I almost did.
>It would of course go to the wrong address!
>
Another piece of advice is not to send an email back to the sender asking
to be removed: your name will be simply added to a list and circulated to
other spammers. Complaining to the site hosting the account is often a
waste of time as spammers open accounts, email out in bulk, and then leave
the accounts.
>dge
>
>David G. Engle
>
>email: [log in to unmask]
>web: http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore
> http://www.csufresno.edu/forlang
>
> The Traditional Ballad Index:
> http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladIndexTOC.html
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