Martin McCormick <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> > A number of ISPs are currently considering wholesale blocking of
> > all incoming e-mail from AGIS domains; if they decide to go ahead
> > and do it, that blocking will probably start to happen sometime
> > in the next month or so.
>
> Some sites are already blocking packets from spamnets at the router
> level, but that isn't a good idea if there is any possibility of
> anybody other than con artists using the blocked nets.

Martin:

If AGIS is outlawed, only outlaws will use AGIS.

-Andy

P.S.  Cyber Promotions and other spammers are starting to add
      "Confirm Receipt" and "Confirm Reading" headers to the mail
      they send to internet mailing lists.  Some mailing lists (like
      the PICLIST, as far as I know) strip off the "Confirm Receipt"
      requests, but some don't... And nearly all of them pass the
      "Confirm Reading" requests straight through to their
      subscribers.

      If your mail-client responds to those headers, it will
      automatically send your e-mail address to Cyber Promotions
      every time you open one of their messages... So you may want
      to disable your mail-client's confirmation feature.

=== Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
=== Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California
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