the beauteous Jenny

[Edward Mullaly]

To get past the irony of the occasion -- yes, I do notice that junk mail
responses outnumber junk mails.

Whatever we might think of junk mail, I don't think it's a good idea to try
to protest to the actual source of the junk mail.  All this does is allow
the junk mailer to add your specific (rather than the generic 'CanDrama')
address to his/her CONFIRMED list of addresses for lots more junk mail.
(The junk mailer obviously couldn't care less what you have to say or how
you feel about receiving junk mail.)  The junk mailer is LOOKING for
returning letters of protest for confirmation that the mailing list has gone
through, and is looking for the chance to add another confirmed 'real
person' email address -- i.e. yours -- to the list.  The business of the
junk mailer is not selling porn, it's selling addresses.  By protesting,
you're making your own situation worse by opening the junk mail floodgates
(unleashing, well, a trickle now; but who knows?) directly to your own
personal email address.

The path of action to take is to discover the Internet Service Provider, the
company that gives the junk mailer space on the Internet to do the mailings.
The ISP is the one to kick the mailer off.  Email them, if you can trace the
mail back through the electronic bumpf at the top of email messages.

Universities have instituted a number of binary defenses, which I outlined
before Jenny came along with her seductive offer.  These filters protect us
to a large degree but, just as we've accommodated ourselves to live in a
world of murder, genocide, and other crimes against humanity,  we're going
to have to trade off the occasional piece of junk mail appearing (for
deletion) on our 'incoming' email list for the wondrous benefits of
belonging to 'CanDrama' or any other mailing list.

Until Nirvana, we ARE working on filtering out obviously unwanted missives,
such as the epistle of Jenny!





At 07:20 AM 4/3/1998 -0500, Julie Tisdale wrote:
>I tried to send e-mail back to this Jenny person to ask what on earth her
>message had to do with drama and found that it is not an e-mail address
>that my server can find.
>This type of thing is annoying but my delete button is getting a good
>workout.
>
>----------
>From: Guillermo Verdecchia <GLV at COMPUSERVE.COM>
>To: CANDRAMA at hermes.csd.unb.ca
>Subject: Jenny and the millions of models ...
>Date: Thursday, April 02, 1998 10:42 PM
>
>Fellow Candramers,
>
>Weather today in cyber-space? A spam front seems to be moving in from
>virtually every direction.
>
>If we don't want to make the list a private one as suggested by (was it?)
>Andre Bourrasa's (apologies if I have the name wrong) thoughtful post ...is
>there any possibility of addressing the problem through the Internet
>provider, ie. admin at AOL from whence the latest invitations originate?
>
>Mind you, the spam does keep the traffic and discussion on the list up.
>
>GLV
>----------
>
>
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Edward Mullaly                Consensus is unnatural for us.
Department of English         We're an English Department.  Let's
University of New Brunswick,  act like one.
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