I suppose that by posting this, **I** am "spamming", too!  :-)
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Newsgroups:   alt.stop.spamming
Subject:      FAQ
From:         [log in to unmask] (Tzimon Yliaster)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date:         Thu, 19 May 1994 05:11:58 GMT
 
                                STOP SPAMMING
 
Q1.  What is "spamming?"
A1.  Spamming is the practice of sending out unwanted information,
     in the form of either UseNet posts or non-requested mailing lists.
     This is most often, but not always, done by commercial accounts.
 
Q2.  How can I tell if a newsgroup I'm reading has been spammed?
A2.  If you're reading alt.sex.barney and you see a posting for immigration
     lawyers, computer software, or Make-Money-Fast schemes, it's been spammed.
     If you suddenly get advertising in your e-mail, so have you.
 
Q3.  What is this newsgroup for, and what good will it do?
A3.  This newsgroup will serve as a collection of information pertaining
     to spamming incidents, allowing statistics to accompany complaints
     of abuse to sysadmins.  Additionally, it will serve as a place to
     generate ideas on how the users of UseNet can discourage such activity
     themselves, without the need to get administrators involved.
     Such actions may include, but are not limited to:
 
                1. Complaints to sysadmins
                2. Preemptive kill files
                3. Boycotting (if applicable)
                4. E-mail bombing (aka counter-spamming)
                5. Fax bombing
 
     None of these activities are necessarily endorsed by any given
     individual who reads and/or posts to this newsgroup.
 
Q4.  What should I do if I see spamming going on?
A4.  If either you or a newsgroup that you read appears to have been spammed,
     check whether or not other messages have been posted about that partic-
     ular incident here.  If not, then post one.  Always include the name of
     the spammer and the newsgroup(s) the incident(s) occurred on.
 
     If the spamming incident involves newsgroups, then one post will get
     the offending party's name added to a list that will be sent to
     system administrators, as well as enabling other readers to set up
     kill files *before* they receive unwanted e-mail or have to read
     unwanted messages.  The list will be maintained by myself, with the
     results being posted periodically (probably every two weeks.)
 
The idea is really very, very simple, but it is, I think, a good way for
UseNetters to be coherently heard on what is an annoying situation now,
and will only get worse in the future unless folks who don't want things
to go that way get together and do something about it on their own.
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Let it be for you a great and high mystery in the light of nature that a thing
can completely lose and forfeit its form and shape, only to arise subsequently
out of nothing... far nobler than what it was in the beginning.
                                -- Paracelsus, "Alchemy, Art of Transformation
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