Jacki Stranathan

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SPAM

When I was growing up Spam was a meat (?) product. It came out during the war era and was a canned meat substitute. Truthfully I like it all fixed up with brown sugar and cloves and backed. Others may tell you differently.

Spam in the Internet sense of the word is (Unsolicited mailing). We’ve been getting junk mail in the snail mail forever but this spam stuff is getting worse. It is costing businesses a lot of money to wad through the stuff. Plus there is the time factor. The legislature is now getting involved. There are ways to protect your email account. Don’t buy anything from your regular account. Get a free hot mail account to purchase stuff.

Write to your Congress person to move quickly on legislature to stop this spamming. Plus let your server know you do not support spam advertising and such. If they don’t take you off their list get a legitimate server who will listen. We now have a phone number we can call to stop telemarketers. We also have ways of making the Spam stop.

To report a spam problem there are 2 ways:

abuse@your site name.com

support@your site name.com

Call if the pestering persists and you get no satisfaction removing them from your email list. If three is no change and spam keeps coming, consider changing emails!

To find out who the spammer is you can go to this web site:

www.arachnoid.com/whois/index.html

There you will find a who is it utility and can trace the nuisance.

Some additional tips on spam:

1. Never respond to spam email. That means don’t even respond with remove my name!
2. Write your Congressional Representative!
3. Report all fraudulent emails!
4. Be aware of this list of current spam email addresses: www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/antispam/spammers.txt

www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/antispam/spamdomains.txt

5. Join the Coalition Against Unsolicited Emails! More voices more response and faster.