On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Greg Toffic <gtoffic at halcyon.com> wrote:

> I received the following solicitation today. I see TWEETERS in the Senders
> box. I imagine I was not singled out and that perhaps the entire list of
> subscribers got this message. Anyway, I'm bringing it to your attention
> and hope that you can do something about it. Thanks

Hi Greg,

Yes, I was dismayed to see that spam infiltrate our list. I had received
another copy of it in addition to the one that hit our list.

Here's the actions I've taken:

1) Enabled a full header to see what domain it originated through and sent
my canned anti-spam message to postmaster at ilk.com and
postmaster at atlcom.net

2) Informed the Lists Manager and Computing & Communications at the UW.

3) Put the *From:* address in the Tweeters ignore file.

4) Spent some time considering whether or not to configure Tweeters to be
set to "SEND-BY-SUBSCRIBERS."

The last item I've been resisting, since we get some very nice postings
from non-subscribers. I think we should leave it as it is for now. But
if we continue to be invaded by these unwanted mass commercial postings,
we'll have to change the config.

Sorry for the bother,

Dan Victor, Seattle, WA <dvictor at u.washington.edu>
List Min~ion
Tweeters = http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dvictor/