Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00077)

I just got the August 2003 issue of Consumer Reports. It says that
there is a government email site to report Spam.

On page 15, it says "To help the FTC control spam, forward it to
uce@ftc.gov

"uce" stands for unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eldon B tucker" <listmail@theosophist.org>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:44 PM
Subject: Theos-World wierd things happening from spam


> I just wanted to mention something unusual that happened to me
because of
> some email spammer. I had posted some message on the bn-study
mailing list.
> It included at its end an automatically generated email id to
respond to if
> I wanted to unsubscribe from that list. Apparently, that message
ended up
> somewhere where someone picked up that address from the internet and
added
> it to their spam email id list. When they send spam to that address,
the
> list management software automatically unsubscribed me from
bn-study. What
> does this suggest? Always look at the end of messages that you might
be
> forwarding or resending to make sure there aren't such lines in the
email
> you're sending out.