I have rarely experienced as much satisfaction as I did when I configured my newsreader to filter out that particularly noxious and reoccurring advertisement, "MAKE.MONEY.FAST."
I felt as if I had single-handedly won a war against a new urban blight. My success was short-lived, however; new species of advertisements are springing up on Usenet, some of them invading my mailbox.
Fortunately, Axel Boldt's Blacklist of Internet Advertisers came to the rescue. Boldt lists the e-mail addresses of people responsible for junk e-mail and Net spamming so you can easily add them to your kill file or mail bomb 'em back. Indeed, the blacklist FAQ suggests a number of ways to punish unruly advertisers (pursuant to local laws, of course).
The blacklist has only a few entries (and I hope it stays that way), but I am now equipped to fight the battle against the spam. For more information, check out http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/blacklist.html or boldt@math.ucsb.edu.
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