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- [lots of people wrote lots of things back to the Executor mailing
- list about the Net SAAver Fares jun kmail. A response is off-topic,
- but hopefully it will allow us to avoid inappropriate postings in
- the future, and has been pre-approved by melissa@ardi.com.]
-
- The proper way to handle mail of this sort is to send a polite note
- to the user explaining that the posting is inappropriate. If you
- think it was intentional, mail the postmaster at that site (just
- replace the user name with 'postmaster', ie, if you were having
- problems with someuser@arsc.edu, it'd be postmaster@arsc.edu) and
- cc the troublesome user.
-
- If it appears that this is one of those one-machine domains and
- that the postmaster is unlikely to be sympathetic (the machine only
- exists to send other people junk mail), then you may also want to
- cc the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provides the person
- with their link. You can find this information out with a 'whois'
- command (Ie, 'whois amrcorp.com' for example).
-
- Your letter should look something like this:
-
- > Please inform your users that crossposting ads to completely
- > unrelated newsgroups and mailing lists is a really bad idea.
- > Feel free to ask me if you don't understand why.
- >
- > In this case, comp.emulators.mac.executor and EXECUTOR@ardi.com
- > are definitely not related to airline ticket prices.
-
- Be polite. Many times, the person doesn't know that what he is
- doing is inappropriate. Explain what happened, where it happened,
- and why it shouldn't have happened. Include a complete copy of
- the original message, including all mail headers.
-
- Remember that it does no good to also post a reply back to the
- original news group or mailing list since people who post junk mail
- inappropriately are almost never on the mailing list or reading
- the newsgroup. All this does is cause people to become annoyed
- with you as well.
-
- Most people administrating systems do not like junk mail any more
- than you do, and you'll generally get a response back as soon as
- the person reads it. In this case, I got a very polite and
- action-oriented message back from the postmaster at amrcorp.com
- who planned to not only take care of the current problem, but take
- steps to avoid any future problems like this one.
-
- > Mike,
- >
- > Apparently someone subscribed EXECUTOR@ARDI.COM to the AA NetSAAver
- > mailing list, so it wasn't exactly a crossposting. I have removed the
- > EXECUTOR@ARDI.COM address from the list. I completely agree with you
- > about crossposting. In an attempt to avoid similar episodes in the
- > future I will try to convince the marketing folks that they need to add
- > some "DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE OR CROSSPOST" text to the outgoing list
- > messages and the subscription notification messages. If something bad
- > happens and you get any NetSAAver messages distributed to you
- > inappropriately, please send me an e-mail and I'll do what I can to fix it.
- >
- > Keith
-
- Happy ending. Problem solved. Everyone benefits! For more
- information on this topic, check out the FAQ in in the newsgroup
- news.admin.net-abuse.announce or see
- <http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html.
-
- If you have any followups to this message, please send them to
- either myself or news.admin.net-abuse.misc, but definitely not to
- the mailing list.
-
- Thanks
- ---
- Mike Kienenberger Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
- Systems Analyst (907) 474-6842
- mkienenb@arsc.edu <http://www.arsc.edu
-
-