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Policy Protecting your privacy from address harvesters Revenge spams Key antispam resources Links to other antispam resources. Abuse of the ASQ Section 209 bulletin board |
Antispam Policy and
Resources Levinson Productivity Systems, P.C. is absolutely opposed to unsolicited bulk commercial E-mail (UCE or "spam"). The company defines spam as an E-mail that meets all three of these criteria:
instead of a standard mail link is to defeat spammers' address
harvesting
software. Junk E-mailers have software that crawls through Web pages
and
picks up anything in the format A@B.C where A is an address (e.g. A =
TheBoss),
B is a domain name (e.g. B = ct-yankee) and C is .com, .org, or .net.
These
addresses are then added to junk mailing lists and sold to other
spammers.
This is why some companies don't post E-mail contact addresses. Instead, you have to fill out a form to send your message to them. As shown by the image above, you can also put your E-mail address on your web page as a .GIF or .JPG image (Microsoft Paint, which comes with Windows, can save images in both formats) which cannot be picked up by conventional address harvesting software. If you post messages to newsgroups (e.g. misc.industry.quality) be sure to "spam block" your address because address harvesters also look through newsgroups. As an example, I might use TheBoss@SPAMBLOCKct-yankee.com. A person who wants to contact me can figure out that "SPAMBLOCK" should be removed from the return address but an address harvester will collect a nonexistent address. Revenge Spams ("Joe jobs")A revenge spam (also known as a "joe job" in news.admin.net-abuse.email) is an attempt to cause trouble for another person by sending spam with his/her E-mail address as a response address, or a spam that advertises his/her Web site. This company does not offer legal advice (we have no attorneys on staff) but common sense suggests that the spammer could easily be sued for defamation. If the spam advertises something illegal, it could constitute a "false accusation of a crime" which is automatically libel. The revenge spammer's Internet service provider would probably have to reveal the sender's identity if presented with a subpoena or court order. This company encourages the victim of any such conduct to contact an attorney regarding possible legal action. Key Antispam Resources
Links to other resources (valid December 2002)
Abuse of the ASQ Section 209 PHP bulletin board If you are finding this link through a "member" of the ASQ Section 209 bulletin board, the individual has been banned for trying to sign up a blog that redirects to an illegal online pharmacy or some other commercial site that has nothing whatsoever to do with the quality profession. The advertised blog has been replaced with a link to this page instead. In fairness to the board's legitimate users (members of ASQ Section 209 and prospective employers who post job ads), spam cannot be tolerated, nor will the board's administrator tolerate the waste of his time by the would-be abusers. It is therefore our policy to cause the spammer hundreds of times as much damage as any benefit he might derive from attempted abuse of this resource (they should be aware that their memberships are automatically disapproved and the sites they attempt to advertise deleted on the spot), and the following punitive actions are routinely taken.
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