Re: Chain letters

[Dan Robinson / Indexing Services <drobinson@INFO.HWWILSON.COM>]

Peter makes a good point about AOL. You get a form letter in
response, but they ARE fast. I got a junk email with an AOL address,
deleted it, and got the bounce on the automatic reply confirmation
returned for a nonexistent address within 12 hours.

Dan Robinson
Editorial Specs Specialist
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@info.hwwilson.com

(please apply this sig to my earlier message in reponse to the spaces
in the sig address. Still getting used to a new system) <grin>
Dan.
On 19 Jun 97 at 20:44, Peter Milbury wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Nancy Wooldridge wrote:
>
> > Have any of you received chain letters today?  I have received two.  I
> > don't appreciate this type of mail and wondered how they got my e-mail
> > address to send them to me personally.  The letters were from P4010@aol.com.
>
> I receive too, far too many of them. There are several things I do.
> When they arom an AOL account, it is easier to deal with, because
> AOL is very tough on commercial abusers of their services.
>
> Send a copy of the letter with a complaint to: ABUSE@AOL.COM
>
> They are quite good at putting a stop to such abuse!
>
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