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Replying to Junk Mail

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Subject: Replying to Junk Mail
From: Russell Woodford <>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:43:37 +0800
Hi everyone

There was a message a few days ago from a company in NZ - the message suggested that to avoid receiving any more emails from them it was necessary to send a message with 'remove' in the subject line etc.

DON'T DO THIS!! I've added a filter that has successfully blocked more of their mail - if you reply, it merely confirms your email address as valid, and adds it to their database. This is only good if you want more mail from them (and from others they share their address lists with).

While I'm here I might as well add...

Please remember the 'code of conduct' which has kept birding-aus standards so high (mostly!):

1.      Don't send attachments to birding-aus
2. Don't include all of the previous message in a reply -just whatever is necessary for clarity
3.      Don't send messages of a purely commercial nature
4.      Keep your language appropriate for a wide audience and stay on topic
5.      Messages should be less than 20Kb in size
(that's about 12-15 onscreen pages of text, depending on your browser etc)

Thanks, and now back to the bird topics....

Russell

Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Manager

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