RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited

Mon Nov 16 10:17:36 UTC 1998

The RBL team and I are kind of wondering what to do about some spam we got.
Because blackholing NSI would be of operational concern to a lot of you, I've
decided to ponder this question out loud:

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:50:26 PST
To: rbl at maps.vix.com
Subject: Paul - value call on this

Technically, this is an opt-out customer-relationship spam.

I think it is a special case, because _there is no where else to go_.

208.226.58.70 should be RBL'ed, IMHO.  Help me.

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> Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:01:14 -0500
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> Sender: Owner-Admin <owner-admin at LISTS.NETSOL.COM>
> From: List Manager Account <listmngr at LISTS.NETSOL.COM>
> Subject:      Network Solutions' E-Commerce Update
> To: ADMIN1 at LISTS.NETSOL.COM
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> ###########################
> 
> Dear Customer,
> 
> You are a valued customer and we want to help increase and
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