Just a reminder. Ignore the spam. As listowner, I forward it on to
RootsWeb. See his most recent response and consider joining a group to help
work to curb the Spammers.
Melissa
Hi-
This is an automatic response to the mail you sent to abuse(a)rootsweb.com.
I'm Tim Pierce, senior system administrator for the RootsWeb Genealogical
Data Cooperative. Currently I handle all mail for abuse(a)rootsweb.com, and
will generally act within minutes on any report of a RootsWeb-related
attack.
Important! If you're complaining about "spam" you've received recently
(unsolicited commercial e-mail), MAKE SURE THAT THE SPAM CAME FROM ROOTSWEB!
Check the full headers of the message and see if there's a "rootsweb.com"
anywhere in there. If the spam didn't come from our machines, there just
isn't anything that I can do about it-sorry.
These recent spams have already been dealt with:
* hennu(a)canada.com: "OVERSTOCK ARTIFICIAL TREES ..."
* JCousino(a)aol.com, LJGEG(a)aol.com: "The Sanarchist Cookbook"
* report(a)top-10.com: "Visibility Report"
* uinfo78(a)yahoo.com: "STOP SICKNESS AND DISEASE FOREVER!"
* seedman8(a)apexmail.com: "$1 Goes A Long Way!!!"
* "Photo Mousepads" [GIDGE1026(a)aol.com, Amyj4547(a)aol.com, etc.]
* "Cable Descrambler" [GIDGE1026(a)aol.com, Amyj4547(a)aol.com, etc.]
Thanks for your extra reports, though: they give us more evidence to use,
should we ever be able to mount a legal battle against this stuff.
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If the spam didn't come from RootsWeb, what can you do about it?
* Ask your local tech support folks for help identifying the sender. Many
ISPs provide someone like me whose job it is to complain about spam on
behalf of all their users. Find out whether there's such a person at your
site.
* Join CAUCE, the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail.
These folks, who really have their act together, are lobbying Congress to
pass a bill to criminalize junk e-mail. They can use all the help they can
get. See
http://www.cauce.org.
* If you're a U.S. citizen, write to your Congressional representatives and
urge them to co-sponsor HR 1748, the "Netizens Protection Act of 1997"
sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith of New Jersey. This bill would extend
existing laws against junk faxes against junk e-mail, and is the only bill
presently before Congress that would stop spam before it starts.
I do try to ensure that no spam makes it through our systems twice (or even
once if that's possible), and I try to respond to every RootsWeb-related
spam report that I get. If you haven't heard from me in a day or so and are
concerned that I missed your complaint, don't be shy-remind me.
Thanks for supporting RootsWeb!
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades