I too ended up on his list and sent a polite message that I was not
interested in the material and was promptly dropped.  I soon ended up,
however, on several other bulk mailing lists to which a similar polite
reply seemed to serve only as a confirmation that my address was valid and
thus open for the season.  There are many ways to get all of our addreses
and there isn't much we can do abut it at home, but the providers are doing
their darndest to prevent such spamming (it clogs the hell out of the
legitimate systems) but the spammers have a thousand ways around any
filters.  Its a profitable game for them and a challenge to hack through
the gaunttlet thrown in their path.

        Dan W.


At 09:51 AM 4/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey friends,
>
>When I got my first unsolicited mail from the Britam list last year, I
>responded immediately with a 4-letter laced invective, which questioned the
>sender's patronage, intellectual capability, and certifiability, and demanded
>to be removed immediately.  I believe it went to about one, stream of
>consciousness sentence.
>
>I was removed immediately, and so informed...  There is no reason in the
>world to be polite to unsolicited junk mail!
>
>Good luck.
>
>Mark Branstner
>