[csap]

I got all of them also.

Not newsmax.com, but newsmax.sparklist.com

obviously imposters trying to get us to respond to them

[martin_fierro]

If "Sparklist.com" is the culprit, you can contact 'em here:

SparkLIST.com Corporation (SPARKLIST-DOM)
1800 West Mason Street
Green Bay, WI 54303
US

Domain Name: SPARKLIST.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
SparkLIST Domains Registrar (MQNOFTEIDO) domains@SPARKLIST.COM
SparkLIST.com Corporation
1800 West Mason Street
Green Bay, WI 54303
USA
920.366.3528
Fax- 920.490.5909

Record expires on 11-Aug-2003.
Record created on 12-Aug-1997.
Database last updated on 1-Jul-2002 16:01:52 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.SPARKLIST.COM 207.67.22.84
NS2.SPARKLIST.COM 207.67.22.85

You can also contact your's state's AG's office if it has anti-SPAM legislation in place.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Check out this link: Spam Primer

Note that the primer mentions that you should not use links in spam that promise to unsubscribe you from their mailing list -- quite the opposite. By clicking the link, it posts your email to a script that adds it to a 'valid email' list, which will subject you to even more spam!

By the way, "This is True" is a great email newsletter, with hilarious true stories culled from various sources, and then commented upon, not unlike we do at FR. There's a free version and a pay version. The guy that runs it seems like he'd be a FReeper.