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Thanks for [profile] reneesarah, who provided a link to a new article that mentioned www.dmaconsumers.org. The Direct Marketing Association is an association of junk mailers.
A lot of spam is from less legit sources than the DMA members. Nonetheless, the DMA has a subscription service in which you can ask to be deleted from junk e mail. I have no idea of its efficacy. I just know I signed up for it immediately.

Date: 2002-07-22 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattcallow.livejournal.com
hmmmm...and now they have your email address? am i just being too cynical?

Date: 2002-07-22 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gurdonark.livejournal.com
I'm as cynical as the next guy, but the DMA lobbies hard for their "self-policing" to try, largely unsuccessfully of late, to avoid more regulation. I don't think that even DMA would cut off their nose in this way.

eeeeep!

Date: 2002-07-22 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nacowafer.livejournal.com
I smell a rat! What if you signed up rather than off?!

Sorry. The paranoia's like a monkey on my back!

could be

Date: 2002-07-22 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gurdonark.livejournal.com
Only way for me to find out is to let a few weeks pass, and see what happens!

Date: 2002-07-22 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] voodoukween.livejournal.com
there's a fabulous and easy to download program called MailWasher that has a function that no filter or email program offers in that you can choose to bounce back unwanted emails as "invalid address" before it ever enters your email thereby sending no cookie

i'm not sure how it will work with AOL but i've used it for some months and love it

and i wholly support any groups lobbying to crack down on spam

never could stand that weird unmeat product anyways

Date: 2002-07-23 05:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gurdonark.livejournal.com
I've been reading up on spam programming a bit...maybe I'll get one.

Re:

Date: 2002-07-23 08:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] voodoukween.livejournal.com
shall i send you their contact information?

Date: 2002-07-23 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gurdonark.livejournal.com
That would be nice, thanks!

new Anti-spam program

Date: 2002-07-30 05:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lonestarslp.livejournal.com
This program sounds like the best program I have ever seen for dealing with spam. "Not A Moment Too Soon, Digiportal's Innovative New ChoiceMail Program Means the End of Spam" by Hal Plotkin, San Francisco Chronicle, 07/30/02. I got this from [livejournal.com profile] scripty

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