Re: CCL:Sorry for the "Why not allow advertising on the Internet" message



 Jan:
 A warning to us all lest we succumb to the internet lingo...
 Did you see the newscript article on page 60 of the 11 August 1997 C&E
 News?  spamming has led to legal action both by internet access providers
 as well as by Hormel Foods, makers of Spam.
 Doug
 At 09:45 AM 8/14/97 -0400, you wrote:
 >Dear CCL,
 >
 >I want to apologize to the German speaking membership of the CCL for the
 >spam which appeared on the list. I updated my filters with a number of
 >keywords in German, and included paths to the origin for header checking.
 >I hope that messages from at least this source will not spam the list
 >again, but you never know how clever they are.
 >It is encouraging that Internet is really international {:-(} and
 >the spam is not only restricted to English.
 >
 >Jan Labanowski
 >jkl - at - ccl.net
 >
 >
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 >
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