[lug] hooray, anti spam

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:46:23AM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
>Tell me more...do you just forward spam and maybe paste the full header
>in with it? Does uce at ftc.gov actually do something?

I just forward the entire message, including full headers.  I've heard that
the FTC is building a datbase of UCE, and that's what sending to
uce at ftc.gov does.  I figure that it doesn't hurt to give them an idea of
how much UCE is out there.  They apparently get 17,000 messages a day at
that addres.  I'm amazed it's so low, that must just be a few thousand
people if that...

The only reference I found on the ftc.gov web site that mentions this
address is only mentioning it in passing though.  Apparently there was
recently an article at salon.com about this.

   http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/inbox.htm
   http://www.salon.com/

Sean
-- 
 I got some spam for herbal Viagra today.  It's subject was "GET HARD FAST".
                 -- Sean Reifschneider, based on an idea by Mike Loseke, 2000
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