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spam from remove.org

remove.org, who claim to be an anti-spam organization, just sent this spam to an address that was certainly not obtained legitimately. (I can guarantee that our mailer-daemon did not sign up for their messages!)

What do you suppose are the chances that anyone who signs up for their supposed opt-out list will have their address sold to spammers? For 50c I'd set up a dummy address and try it.

If I were an American I'd be pretty pissed off at having my national icons spread across the banner of such a sleazy enterprise.

From: Danielle Cushman 
Subject: FWD: concerned parent
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:42:45 -0500
To: mailman(a)lists.samba.org

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   This is worth checking out... please pass it on.

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Danielle Cushman
   To: Sharron Kelly
   Cc: Karla Anderson; Megan_Jim_Davis@hotmail.com;
   EdWaldon@lycos.com;
   Andrea Manning; Bill Barnes; Mark and Karen Whyte-Iowa;
   danrogers3@alaska.net;
   alex.urban@gci.net; stephens_03@attbi.net; Laura Clark-Glacial
   Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:20 AM
   Subject: concerned parent

   There is a large problem facing our nation that we all need to work
   together to fix. My children have received pornographic emails and
   I want
   it to stop. I found this site, www.remove.org that stops Spam and
   pornographic material in emails. We need to make sure that everyone
   knows
   there is a way to stop these emails.

   Please forward this to everyone you know so that we can stop this
   huge
   problem for good.

   Thanks
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   >
   >To have your email address added to the national opt-out directory
   >please click on the following link: http://www.remove.org.
   >
   >
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posted Wed 23 Jul 2003 in /issues/spam | link

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