In regard to the recent junk messages getting to HP3000-L...

The spammers are in danger of getting junk e-mail added to the existing
junk fax law which absolutely bans all unsolicited fax messages.  In
response, most of the big spammers claim they are only sending messages
to people who want them, because they provide ways for people to ask
that junk e-mail not be sent to them.

While most of us just delete junk e-mail without bothering to pay any
attention to their claimed ways of "unsubscribing" (gee, I don't remember
subscribing in the first place) from their spam lists, there is now at
least one of these that seems worthwhile.

There's a form at <http://www.iemmc.org/remove.htm> that you can use to
add yourself to a global "I don't want junk e-mail" list.  The IEMMC
bills itself as a trade organization for internet marketers.  I believe
it's mostly our old friend Sanford (may he burn in hell slowly) "the
spam king" Wallace, which means that if you add yourself to their list
that it should at least eliminate all junk mail from Cyber Promotions
and their obnoxious clients (savetrees?).  It probably won't do you
any good for the amateur one-time spammers, but I can say that the
amount of junk mail I get has noticably decreased since I added myself
to the IEMMC global remove list.

In fact, I'll go try to have [log in to unmask] (and related addresses
added to the global remove list too.  If this works, it will result in
one or more messages to HP3000-L from IEMMC giving a code that has to be
entered into another web page there to confirm the removal.  Please
ignore these messages (I'll do the confirmation for them).

On another note, the spammers are finally getting trickier.  Up 'til now
it's been very easy to spot spam in my inbox because very few people I
communicate with talk in ALL CAPS, or have email addresses that are all
numbers.  Recently there has begun a new class of "lost e-mail" spams
that pretend to be private email between two people talking about some
"hot web site" or product, and the message dosen't even include you as
a recipient.

Oh well, at least Hormel is threatening to sue Wallace over his use of
the trademark "SPAM" :-)

Gavin "been in digest mode and deleting the digests for three months" Scott