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>From: Nancy1234@aol.com
>Subject: OUR LIST
>Sender: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 14:55:38 -0500 (EST)
>
> Doesn't someone read the messages posted here before they forward them?  Is
> my subscription on this list what's exposing me to scores of unsolicited junk
> email each week?  If so, please take my name off this list, as much as I have
> always enjoyed participating here.
>
> Nancy Knupfer, Los Angeles, CA
> Nancy1234@aol.com

Nancy -

I am not sure the nature of your problem.  I do not note any 'junk'
mail coming over Medit-Plants, and while e-mail correspondence can
open you up to be put onto someone's list, I have not noted any
significant amount of unwanted e-mail coming to my own e-mailbox.

Just to let everyone know:  The Medit-Plants mailing list is not
sold or passed onto anyone, though it is available to subscribers
via the 'review' feature of the LISTPROC.  Subscribers can 'conceal'
their e-mail address from the 'review' list if they wish.  Send an
e-mail to LISTPROC@UCDAVIS.EDU containing the following 1 line:

  help

You will be mailed a list of the commands you can send to the
LISTPROC protocal to modify your subscription.

One way 'spammers' and solicitors aquire your e-mail address is from
e-mail items themselves.  If you include your e-mail address in your
signage (as many of us do to facilitate communication), then you
might change it slightly and give breif instruction about what is
wrong and needs changing before it will work.  Computer programs
cannot easily determine that something is wrong with these addresses
they 'pluck' out of e-mail correspondence.  Some people have mailers
that allow for invalid 'FROM:' addresses, and these users again
provide information about what to change in the e-mail address to
successfully respond to them.

It is sad that the interenet has become yet another way to be
harrased - there are already too many harrasement mediums in the
world today.  For whatever reason, you are currently being pick on
and it is wise to review what might be the cause.  As other
Medit-Plants folks (such as myself and others) are not being
targeted, I suggest you look elsewhere for the cause of the problem.
Good luck!

Your humble Medit-Plants pseudo-moderator.

 Sean A. O'Hara                     sean.ohara@ucop.edu
 710 Jean Street                    (510) 987-0577
 Oakland, California 94610-1459     h o r t u l u s   a p t u s
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