Dave wrote:
> I've recently started receiving emails from Alpha Digital offering me
> Sun kit. They have a notice at the bottom:
>
> "We do not wish to offend any one, if you require your details to be
> excluded from further E-Mails & Offers please reply to:
> mwood@alpha-digital.co.uk with the word REMOVE in the subject header"
>
> So, I thought I'd give them the chance and I replied, with REMOVE in the
> subject line. But still the spam comes in.
>
> I'm not sure if it is from them, or perhaps someone claiming to be, as
> the originating IP is not even close to that of their domain name. But
> my guess is it probably is them.
>
> So if anyone from Alpha Digital is looking at this, please check the
> REMOVE emails you have received (sent 29th of October) and remove me
> from your mailing list.
>
>


I have an update on this. Today I received some more spam (this time
Cisco kit), for this company, but I sent a reply saying

*** From me to Alpha Digital ***
"Might I suggest you take a look at some recent discussions on
comp.unix.solaris and other newsgroups about your company."
********************************

I quickly got this back:

**From Alpha Digital to me****
"Good morning David,

I have just read the recent discussions and was wondering if you had
written the post on there. If you did I would like to apologise for this
and would never intentionally keep you on my mailing list if you didn’t
wish to be on it. Please reply again with remove if you no longer wish
to receive my special offers.

Also we have done you a few quotes before in the past which is why I
have your details.

I once again apologise if this has in anyway offended you."
*****************************************



Anyway, after a couple of emails hack and forth way, the situation has
been resolved. I am off this persons contacts list.


The final email from him is below:

------
Thanks David your email address has been removed from my contacts list.
However if you do receive any Lists in the future please let me know as
I will look straight into this.

Thank you for letting me know about your posts and I hope you will let
every one know we have come to a happy conclusion.
-------

I've received the odd mailing from others in the company over the years,
but very small volumes of it, so I was not too bothered.

I guess whether you believe it is OK to add someone to a mailing list as
a result of them making a sales inquiry is a matter of opinion. It is
not one I agree with myself, but at least they have had the decency to
reply now and remove me.

dave

In comp.sys.sun.hardware John Schmidt <js@radix.net> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader wrote:
>
>> cron a message back to him, at say 1000 messages every hour. request they
>> opt out.
>
> Because two wrongs make a right, correct?

It not a wrong, it's a solution.

they spammed me, I asked for them to stop until they agreed. It's pretty
simple.

I also have a spam forwarding system that forwards spam from places that
sold my email address that I used for contact with a company (a unique
address for each company) back to addresses at other companies that did
the same. It's spam delegation, and not my problem, but something for
asshole companies to deal with among themselves.

Cydrome Leader wrote:
> In comp.sys.sun.hardware John Schmidt <js@radix.net> wrote:
>
>>Cydrome Leader wrote:
>>
>>
>>>cron a message back to him, at say 1000 messages every hour. request they
>>>opt out.
>>
>>Because two wrongs make a right, correct?
>
>
> It not a wrong, it's a solution.

"1000 messages every hour" is a solution?

JS

John Schmidt wrote:

> "1000 messages every hour" is a solution?
>
> JS

In case anyone missed this, they have now removed me from their mailing
list, and apologised my initial request to be removed was overlooked. I
did not appreciate being added to their mailing list without asking to
be on it, but at least they have stopped.

In comp.sys.sun.hardware John Schmidt <js@radix.net> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader wrote:
>> In comp.sys.sun.hardware John Schmidt <js@radix.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Cydrome Leader wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>cron a message back to him, at say 1000 messages every hour. request they
>>>>opt out.
>>>
>>>Because two wrongs make a right, correct?
>>
>>
>> It not a wrong, it's a solution.
>
> "1000 messages every hour" is a solution?
>
> JS

It gets attention pretty fast.

Cydrome Leader wrote:

>>> It not a wrong, it's a solution.
>> "1000 messages every hour" is a solution?
>>
>> JS
>
> It gets attention pretty fast.

Perhaps not from who you want though - your ISP is quite likely to give
it some attention.

In comp.sys.sun.hardware Dave <someplace@nowhere-nice.com> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader wrote:
>
>>>> It not a wrong, it's a solution.
>>> "1000 messages every hour" is a solution?
>>>
>>> JS
>>
>> It gets attention pretty fast.
>
> Perhaps not from who you want though - your ISP is quite likely to give
> it some attention.

That's when you "discover" and correct a "misconfigured" script.

It's really not a problem.