Russ:

You should mail [log in to unmask]  He maintains the filters and you
_CAN_ have entire domains filtered.

My understanding is that most sites (cyperpromo for one) downloads new
filter
lists each morning (3AM ?).  So even though might be on the list, until
the
site pulls new filters you still get the spam.

--mikejMichael Jung
Financial Alliance Processing Services, Inc.
[log in to unmask]


>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Russ [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Friday, August 08, 1997 1:20 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       SPAM to this list, and other lists.
>
>The recent "Hi" message was a spam originating from the Online
>Marketers
>Association. These people have, amongst other things, promised their
>subscribers to never terminate their accounts regardless of *any*
>complaints received. Therefore its possible for these subscribers to
>send absolutely anything they may want through to anywhere they want.
>
>OLMA is provided access by Agis, and Agis has abrogated their
>responsibility over their customers in this area by assigning that
>responsibility to yet another company, supposedly not part of Agis.
>IEMMC filters all mail that Agis customers send, and in doing so, adds
>an X-Advertisement: header that says,
>
>Visit http://www.iemmc.org for name removal information
>
>You can then add your email addresses (one at a time with no wildcard
>features whatsoever) and they say they will prevent any of their
>members
>(Agis customers only) from sending you spam.
>
>So, I would suggest that you list managers make sure you submit your
>list addresses to this stupid service to avoid the messages like the
>one
>this list received. I think its reprehensible that Agis feel they can
>sherk their responsibility this way, and IEMMC (who state that they are
>in business to provide SPAMmers a way to SPAM) think that entering each
>and every email address you might manage is the way to allow people to
>turn off SPAM.
>
>If I were to try and be proactive and prevent all of my users from
>receiving SPAM, I might have to enter thousands of names into this
>stupid web interface. Then each one is mailed a validation code which
>has to be entered into a different page again with the corresponding
>email. Can you imagine the effort?
>
>Cheers,
>Russ
>R.C. Consulting, Inc. - NT/Internet Security
>owner of the NTBugTraq mailing list:
>http://ntbugtraq.rc.on.ca/index.html