How can I turn the tables on trash?

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 28 Apr 2006 11:51 am

Someone who wrote to me requesting steel guitar info and to whom I responded as helpfully as I could ended up thanking me by putting me on an email list. I received a mass mailing from him containing highly offensive material. I wrote back and told him to IMMEDIATELY remove me from his list. Can't imagine what made him think it was ok to send me his garbage.

If he does not remove me and if this happens again I want to bomb him some way. Is there any way I can expose his email address to spammers----I would love to submit his address to viagra and penis enlargement salesmen as well as your run-of-the-mill Nigerian retards.

BTW--his email is of a political nature and probably does not meet any standard of abusive violations that I could report to his ISP.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 28 Apr 2006 12:02 pm

I believe if you right click on his e-mail address, you can block him from sending you any more e-mails. That should get him out of your hair.

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 28 Apr 2006 12:08 pm

Agreed, Erv, and when I cool down it is likely the wise answer. At the moment I am NOT cooled down and I'd sure like some ammo in the event it is warranted. But this shall pass.......

Bobby D. Hunter · Post by **Bobby D. Hunter** » 28 Apr 2006 12:15 pm

If you have already asked him to stop sending you his email messages, yet he continues to do so, he is overstepping. If the messages contain any references at all to any business enterprise, of any nature, that propels his email into the catagory of UCE (spam). Report him to SpamCop and he will probably have his ISP account terminated as soon as the ISP gets the reports from SpamCop. The URL to signup for a free reporting account is http://www.spamcop.net

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Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 28 Apr 2006 12:19 pm

Nah. Just political stuff that pushes some hot-buttons for me. Don't be sending me pictures of the Twin Towers on 9-11 and preaching "it wouldn't have happened if......"
I really want to stomp someone.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 28 Apr 2006 12:32 pm

If you use Outlook Express as your email client highlight an email from the person, unopened in your inbox, click on the menu item "Message," and select Block Sender. Click Ok to add him to your blocklist. Any further email from that address will be sent directly to your Deleted folder, which is emptied when you close Outlook Express (if so configured). You can also create an email Rule that when it matches his name or email address will delete it off the email server, without ever downloading it. I call these Kill Rules.

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Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 28 Apr 2006 12:55 pm

Yeah. As per Erv. Fair enough. Sure would love to know a way to leave a cyber flaming bag on his doorstep. Handing his address on a silver platter to spammers is an appealing bit of justice.
This all may be moot if I do not receive anything more from him. And I would actually welcome a simple apology as the best ending to this story.