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Dear list members, Below you'll find a message from Mailbase's Helpline, which sheds further light on the spamming situation. I trust you will be as pleased as I am with the quick and decisive action taken by Mailbase with regard to attempts to spam us. George ****************************************************** Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:34:26 +0100 (BST) From: Mailbase Helpline <[log in to unmask]> Reply-to: Helpline <[log in to unmask]> To: George FERZOCO <[log in to unmask]> Cc: Helpline Distribution List <[log in to unmask]> Subject: re: ADMIN spam Hello, Mailbase is no longer accepting any messages from geocities.com Geocities.com is a site which supplies free email accounts, and yesterday [log in to unmask] joined ALL the open Mailbase lists (that's about 1,400 lists). We removed the address and complained to geocities. Last night the same user resubscribed to all the Mailbase lists from a different account ([log in to unmask]) and this time they managed to send spam to Mailbase lists. In order to stop this happening again Mailbase will be refusing all messages from geocities.com We will be emailing all the legitimate users of Mailbase with a geocities.com address to explain the situation and apologise for any inconvenience ************************* George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654 Director of Italian Studies fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633 University of Leicester e-mail [log in to unmask] School of Modern Languages LEICESTER LE1 7RH UNITED KINGDOM %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%