Re: Kill-filing Spammers

"Bryan K" <webmaster13@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That gets rid of a lot of good posters.

Very true, but it also sends a very definite message to Yahoo when
their good subscribers call them and complain that their emails and
usenet messages aren't propagating.

But they ARE still propagating. You're just not reading them. If I
killfile every Yahoo poster in my Agent software, therefore not even
downloading those messages via the individual.net server, how does
Yahoo know about it? If I configure my AOL software to block Yahoo
emails to me, how does Yahoo know about it? They don't know, let alone
know *why*.

I found through an ISP that I used
to work for that the best way to deal with an other ISP that doesn't
care to take care of stuff like this is to killfile the ISP completely.
If enough people do it, the results are amazing.

But enough people *don't* do it.

When an entire ISP
does it, the results are immediate.

Probably. What does that have to do with us as individual readers of a
newsgroup that's being inundated with spam and most of those
individuals won't bother telling Yahoo about it?

When people learn that the reason
they are not being listened to is because of the ISP or domain they are
using, they tend to switch rather quickly.

How will they learn this if you don't tell their ISP?

Peg

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