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From: don't_ask AT don't_tell.0rg
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Public Service Announcement
Date: 18 Dec 2001 07:33:08 -0800
Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com]
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

My purpose for writing was to alert people to the fact that AOL is hosting a
crook and that if they receive the spam, they should complain to authorities,
18 states in the U.S.A. have laws that prohibit theft of bandwidth by spam, and
there are many long-standing laws both state & Federal that prohibit mail-fraud,
+ scams such as pyrmids, ponzi scams,.... and the SEC prosecuted cases of
Investment Fraud.  People need to be alerted to the recourse that they have,
its NOT just hit delete, its get the spammers account deleted + prosecute the
outlaws.

In article <200112180151 DOT fBI1pqS03582 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com>, DJ says...
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>> This is a newsgroup, if people are having the newsgroup e-mailed to them,
>>thats another matter, but all I see here is a newsgroup, so whats the problem?
>
>Mail, news, whatever.  Replying to spam does nothing to stop it, but
>does create extra traffic and messages that need to be dealt with.
>IMHO people who reply to spammers - and end up sending messages to
>everyone except the spammers - are just as bad as the spammers
>themselves.
>
>Like I've said many times before, either reply privately or just hit
>delete, but please don't send to everyone.