EMAIL ABUSE - how to
stop
From: J.Paul Robinson (jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 08:43:08 EST
Colleagues: I am sending out a copy of a message I have
just sent to
RNWAY laboratories of South Korea and all 20 worldwide
distributors of
RNWAY products most of whom are highly reputable
companies. I am only
sending it to you because I am going to propose to create
a small
"SCIENTISTS against EMAIL
ABUSE"
type of revolutionary action.........
I won't send you more copies
of what I am going to send out,
But
I will post
them in a prominent place
on our website so that you can follow and
participate in the
action.
I am truly sick and tired
of receiving literally dozens of
unsolicited crap messages
each day.
However, receiving them from supposedly reputable companies
drives me really crazy.
These, I can do something
about and I am.
The rest are virtually
beyoned any reasonable solution. As you
can see, I have
started with RNWAY, a
company that I have requested a dozen
times to
remove me from their
abusive lists. This week they sent
me an attachment to boot....
- something they do constantly. This made me really
mad.
Perhaps it was the beef I
ate in the UK this week, but
I got
really mad when RNWAY filled my box yet again.....
and I am going to set up a place where
people can register copies of messages they send
recording their
requests
for removal.
This record will become a documentation place you
can copy
your messages to for any future legal actions. We will code the
email
address of the requestor so you don't get further abuse,
but we
will publish
the list of companies that continue to abuse us.
If you have suggestions, please let me know.
Sincerely
"Mad Cow" Paul
Robinson
Purdue University
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Here is the email that I
sent to RNWAYs 20 worldwide distributors
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You are receiving this message if you are associated with
RNWAY products.
We have continually requested removal from RNWAYS abusive
and constant
emails.
It is against Federal law in the United States
to continue to send
unsolicited emails after requests to discontinue are
made.
RNWAY posts a
privacy policy that they
make no attempt to enforce.
Our requests have been
documented by the university on numerous occasions.
RNWAY
is now liable
in the United States for
severe penalties under US law.
As a distributor of this company you
may also incur loss of trade, or reputation for the actions we are going to
take.
As scientists who buy your products, we are going to
exert our own economic power. We will be letting members of our various
associated networks that RNWAY will be listed as an EMAIL SPAM ABUSER.
We will be recommending
that all of our users do not purchase any of their products if they continue to
abuse our email accounts.
As a scientist who uses the
INTERNET as a crucial component of my
communication with others,
I am sick of abuse of my
email and I have
decided that I am going
to do something about it, one company at a time.
This message has been
copied to the 20 companies that distribute RNWAY
products around the world.
This is the first of a
series of actions. It will also be
copied to 3000 scientists
who may have an interest in stopping this type of
abuse.
It will also be posted on
a public site that had last year over 5
million access.
If you as a distributor want to make a profit on selling
(scientists)
products, I suggest you ensure that the comanies you deal
with don't abuse
us.
If they do, we won't buy
their products and you will lose money.
Do you hear us?
Yours sincerely
J.Paul Robinson,
Professor, Purdue University
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J.Paul Robinson, PhD PH:(765)4940757
Professor of
Immunopharmacology
Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Purdue University FAX:(765)4940517
EMAIL:jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu
WEB: http://www.cyto.purdue.edu
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