In last issue, 'Pissed Off' submitted a response to the 'Texas Rankings' article as follows:

Bush Spam
by Pissed Off 2000.11.07
So I get some spam mail...
subj: "Four Score But NOT Gore Because" and body:

"The genius of small government is the wisdom of few temptations." Hmm? Where should I start? First, the subject statement doesn't even make any sense. Second, regarding the body, isn't it Bush that succumbed to the 'temptations' of drugs, alcohol for not so brief periods of his life? And here's the kicker...when I try to unsubscribe from this list I was obviously put on without consent, I get an error message back. Isn't that illegal? I was going to vote for Nader, but now I've changed my mind. I'm going to vote a few times.

We began repeatedly receiving the same spam. Many have asked me for the best way to deal with this issue. I usually check the message, header info and even check to see who owns the originating IP and send something like the following message to every contact listed for those entities I can find, including just trying bogus ones like webmaster and admin (etc...) at all related IP addresses and domains:
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>>> "TexorcisT" 11/12 8:17 PM >>>
ATTENTION: owners of mail.logan-mmk.com
we are getting spam from your server (mail.logan-mmk.com 209.43.45.67) containing the following message:
The genius of small government is the wisdom of few temptations. VOTE FOR BUSH...
***********************************************************
Further transmissions to you by the sender of this email may be stopped at
no cost to you by sending a reply to this email address with the word
"remove" in the subject line. Reply to votebush@email.com with "remove"in
the subject line.
***********************************************************
jfnj

attempts to remove ourselves from this list results in this:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

(reason: 553 ... No such user)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to ec-mail-intake.mail.com.:
>>> RCPT To:
<<< 553 ... No such user
550 5.1.1 ... User unknown

our servers are private. we demand that you no longer use our servers for any purposes. any further use of our servers by your systems will be logged and billed at $1000 per mail, message or other use.

TexorcisT
texorcist@collusion.org
collusion group
http://collusion.org
4n7i team
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In this case I received this reply within one business day:

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Holly Brown"
To:
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: warning

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience that these e-mails have caused you. Our technicians were in on Friday and found the person that was using our IP address illegally to send out SPAM messages. This person has been reported, and they have been blocked by Skynet of sending any more messages. If you receive any more messages, please let me know.

> Again, we are sorry,
> Logansport Matsumoto Company

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BTW - Sorry about Nader. I voted for him also, but only once.

- Tx