I need some suggestions

[Dr.Phool]

A friend of mine posted my e-mail address to a discussion forum with a bunch of fundy nit-wits arguing about whether or not America was founded as a christian nation or not. I didn't ask to be placed on this list, nor did I want to be.

I e-mailed the entire list and asked to be removed, and got back a few snide remarks from the fundies to just block my AOL account (which I don't have). One woman wished me good luck, but she's been trying to get off the list since October. And I keep getting e-mail from this list I don't want. It would take them all of 30 seconds to remove my name, but they won't do it. I get approximately 150 important e-mails a day as it is, and I don't have time to wade throught this shit.

I think what I'm going to do is flood their e-mail boxes with 3 metropolitan counties voter registration files, and maybe a lot of porn, and the entire library at www.infidels.org. If they have dial-up, it'll take them a week to download their e-mail. With DSL they'll be clogged for days, and their boxes will be full.

I'm even going to do it to my friend. I was his Communications Director for his congressional campaign last year.

Anybody else have any dastardly ideas to get these assholes to drop me? A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste.

[Mz Pip]

1. Can't you just block them?

There must be some way to do that.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[ellenfl]

2. can't you 'unsubscribe'? eom

[Dr.Phool]

5. I've tried to unsubscribe them

They just won't do it. That's why I'm thinking retaliatory action.

[KaliTracy]

3. that would just backfire, they would blast you in the same way, even

if you "unsubscribe" -- they'd note who did this to them --I bet there is at least ONE person in a group like that who knows how to search ISP information and trace "hidden" email addresses (if you go to that length).

just put a filter on the list and delete.


edit: clarity/typo

[Djinn]

4. I'd go with the porn

and any satanic stuff you can find - sending people unsolicited religious garbage is one thing - refusing to stop when saked nicely is another.

Give as good as you get.

Actually on second thoughts some of the highest consumers of porn are the outwardly conservative so they may just enjoy it

[jdj]

6. well, isn't it considered spam?

aren't they arresting spammers now? I just heard that a spammer in NC got sent up for some serious time.

edit:

November 4, 2004
Spammer Gets Slammer
By Roy Mark


A jury in Virginia recommended a nine-year prison term Wednesday afternoon for the first U.S. felony conviction of a spammer. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted on three counts of using deceptive routing information in sending bulk commercial e-mail.

Under Virginia's anti-spam law, which went into effect in April 2003, spammers living outside of the state can be charged, even if none of the recipients live in Virginia, as long as the e-mail was routed through Virginia.***** More than half of the world's e-mail flows through Virginia, home of America Online and numerous federal agencies.*****

According to the evidence presented at the trial, Jaynes, 30, and his sister, Jessica DeGroot, grossed more than $24 million in various e-mail scams. The jury spared DeGroot, 28, jail time but fined her $7,500. A third defendant, Richard Rutkowski, 30, was acquitted.

Circuit Court Judge Thomas Horne will formally sentence Jaynes and DeGroot in February. Horne may reduce the sentence or follow the jury's recommendation, but he cannot increase the penalties.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3431221

from:
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/reports/index.php/4491

maybe write your congress people and then send them a copy of the letter or something.

[jdj]

8. man, if this goes through Virginia like this article says,

you might be able to scare them into leaving you alone.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Here's a surefire way to get rid of it all .... its a bit of work, though

Change your e-mail address ... not all at once, but ease into it.

Establish a new e-mail address and let everyone who you want to send you e-mail know that it will be changing. Keep the old e-mail address just because everyone will miss the notice or not make the change.

The work comes in the transition period ... when you have to check both e-mail addresses all the time.

I do this with some regularity. I takes about a month to get everyone you need to communicate to make the switch. Once you've got everyone over to the new e-mail, cancel the old one.

I do this about once a year. I have no 'stalkers' as it appears you do, but I have more than enough suggestions on how to keep myself erect, mentally stable through the miracles of chemistry, where to buy cheap software, etc., etc., etc. When the spam gets too much, I just duck over to a new name. Since my ISP allows multiple e-mail accounts, I usually just change one letter .... I use my middle inital ... or not ... and just switch back and forth ..... msmith.at.fubar.dot.com .... mpsmith.at.fubar.com ... and back again.

As I said ... a bit of work ... but its very effective.

[SheilaT]

9. What possessed your "friend"

to post your email address without your permission?

You should retaliate to him in some way that makes his life miserable. The bastard.

[Dr.Phool]

10. I'm thinking about that

I've already agreed to coordinate 2 counties for him in the next congressional election. He made a lot of concessions to get me to join the campaign again. I'll talk to him tomorrow.