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    1. Re: [NYRENSSE] SPAM ALERT
    2. Barb Baxter
    3. I, too got that one and didn't even bother to go there.There is a site called SpamCop http://www.spamcop.net/ where you can go to report unsolicited email - I use it and have been very satifsied (free service available). When you report the spam to the people that they recommend (automatically) the spammers's Internet Service Provider and/or domain hoster get a letter from SpamCop. As an ISP and Domain Hoster, the minute we get any report of a spammer, they are gone. We terminate their contracts. Most ISPs do this. Thus the spammer has to keep moving all the time. I did send that piece of spam along with others that I receive from genealogy sites. I got one the other day asking me to go fill out a questionnaire about their site and on that questionnaire I replied that I didn't patronize sites that spammed me. There is also a company called BrightMail which offers free anti-spam software for your individual mailbox http://www.brightmail.com/ It works! It collects all the spam in one place and you can go look at it if you choose or it will just disappear in 30 days. Spam is the #1 complaint of Internet Service Providers and has increased at a great rate just over the last month. FYI - here is the public information about familydiscovery.com: Brad Cook (FAMILYDISCOVERY2-DOM) 373 Cambridge Drive Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 US Domain Name: FAMILYDISCOVERY.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact: Abodeely II, Elias (EAX10) AboEnterprises@PRODIGY.NET Abodeely Enterprises 373 Cambridge Dr. Cedar Rapids , IA 52402-1400 319-377-9845 Record last updated on 27-Sep-2000. At 10:02 AM 10/27/00 -1000, Eve wrote: >Today I recieved an UNSOLICITED email spam offering membership on >familydiscovery.com for 59.99. > >Please be advised that this site is NOT a genealogy data site but >simply a list of links to other FREE INTERNET RESOURCES made by honest >hardworking >volunteers that you can find yourself by using search engines. This site >will also >link to Cyndi's List, Ancestry.com, Dear Myrtle, etc. but has NO ORIGINAL >INFORMATION! >Please don't be fooled by the sales pitch. If you wish to complain to the >owner of the >site, here is the address: > >AboEnterprises@PRODIGY.NET > >Maybe you should write from an anonymous email account so they don't get >your number. >I presume they got mine from the various message boards I have posted to. > > >Aloha >and a pox on spammers! >Eve Barb Baxter http://www.pinehurst.net/genealogy/

    10/28/2000 04:21:46