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The "girls" Spam - response from network

From: kln@a.crl.com
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 16:04:58 -0800
Subject: The "girls" Spam - response from network
To: Love-Hounds@uunet.uu.net
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I got this today in response to my forwarding the "Girls Girls Girls" spam back 
to the source for their information. There seems to be a double effect of 
spamming:  not only do we get tons of messages we don't want and end up furious, 
so do the source networks.  

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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 14:48:51 -0800
From: support@netcom.com (Netcom Support)
To: kln@a.crl.com
Subject: The 'spotter' Spam


This is an automatically generated message in response to your report
of abuse by spotter@netcom.com. Due to the volume of mail received
regarding this user, we are unable to answer each of your reports
individually. Please be aware that if you sent more than one report, you
will only receive this message once.

We have killed this user's processes and suspended the account. Many of 
the posts made from this account have been cancelled and we are  
currently locating and cancelling any other posts by this user. 

Regards,

Linnea
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Linnea					Abuse Coordinator
abuse@netcom.com			Netcom On-Line Communications Services




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