When I get a spam, I reply using my Alternate Signature (I use Eudora Pro - doesn't everybody??), which is reproduced below.


************* THIS IS MY STANDARD NICE REPLY TO SPAMMERS

Get a set of web-pages together, include relevant key-words, and plug yourself into all of the relevant commercial and reference search-sites like Yahoo.

The net community is delighted to have access to info when they search it out, and to be able to initiate communications when they find things they're interested in.

But the net community is *not* pleased to have spams cluttering their in-trays (nomatter how pleasantly they may be phrased, and nomatter whether or not the products and services offered fit their own needs, or their own sense of political correctness).

************* IF YOU DON'T COMPREHEND THIS, DON'T BE

************* SURPRISED IF YOU SUFFER RETALIATION,

************* PROBABLY IN THE FORM OF MAIL-BOMBING

Feel free to check out my materials on Netethiquette:

http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/Netethiquettecases.html


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