Re: legitimate unsolicited commercial e-mail vs spam

From: William C. Stratas <mailbox_at_planetcast.com>
Date: Tue 02 Nov 1999 07:23:07 -0500

JIM REARDON WROTE:
> I should also mention I always get one for each and every
> one of my sites -- one for FreeCenter.com, one for
> HumorPlanet.com, and one for SiteGadgets.com. So I'm not
> just annoyed, I'm annoyed three times. And there is NO way
> to filter out these three addresses as actually being the
> same (they end in a different domain).

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Received on Tue Nov 02 1999 - 06:23:07 CST