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Subject: TAN: how to handle a spammer
From: awest @ webster . m-w . com (Amy West)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 97 10:27:08 EST
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com

I apologize for a slightly inappropriate forum, but I figure alot
of people who are listmanagers are also postmasters.

I just received this morning an *11-page* unsolicited email that
was sent out to everyone this spammer could find with the same last
name soliciting participation in a *barely* legal, probably still illegal
pyramid scheme, and encouraging people to use email to further this scheme.
FYI, this mail was from "rstone@utah-inter.net."  

I've complained to the postmaster for the domain; printed off copies to
send to Attorneys General of the pertinent states.  Is there anything 
else I can/should do to make this person cease & desist, or to discourage
others from doing this in the future?  And not only to me, but to anyone
else on my system?

---Amy West
Postmaster
Merriam-Webster Inc.

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