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To: Bump in the night
As I do with most spam, send them a reasonably worded, courteous, polite response, insisting that they send you no more email. If you subsequently receive a second email from the same address, respond to that with the most bitter, foul, paranoid response you can come up with at the time (if you need help with the verbiage, FReemail me.) Under most statutes this will demonstrate a pattern of harassment on the part of the spammer, who, "insists," on contacting you despite your polite protestations, and whose, "repeated," contacts have caused you fear or intimidation. Under most state stalking or harassment laws, that is enough to prosecute, or at least, prompt a criminal investigation. This response will generally stop spamming businesses dead in their tracks as any further contact results in tremendous liability on their part...anyone who insists on repeated attempts at contact with you after the above two responses, will generally provide probable cause for investigation in most jurisdictions with mature stalking/ harassment laws.
4 posted on 03/15/2002 8:48:13 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Joe 6-pack
If you use Outlook Express or a similar program, you can easily block the sender's address.
7 posted on 03/15/2002 8:51:01 PM PST by Cicero
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To: Joe 6-pack
Joe never ever relpy to spam. Spammers if they get no relpy will believe that it is a dead address with a user that does not use it anymore they will still spam you from time to time but if you reply to them they will send you more.
65 posted on 03/16/2002 9:08:53 PM PST by Libertarian_4_eva
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