From: anthony.phipps@chooseyourmail.com
To: admin@raffy.ch
Subject: Spam Recycle Newsletter
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:58:10 -0600
Message-Id: <M2000010708582914952@chooseyourmail.com>


Spam Recycling Center Update Newsletter

As you requested, the Spam Recycling Center [SRC] is keeping you up to date on the battle against spam.   The distribution list for this update is strictly "opt-in".  Only those people requesting updates and supplying an email address are receiving this information.

The SRC thanks you for your continued support of our efforts to stop the practice of spamming.  If you have questions about our organization, this update, or what you can do to help fight spam, feel free to email us at: nospam@chooseyourmail.com.


1) SRC Announces "Mad About Spam" Cyber-Protest Taking the Fight to the DMA!!!!!

The Spam Recycling Center [SRC] and the Forum for Responsible and Ethical E-mail [FREE] is calling for a consumer and e-business boycott of the Direct Marketing Association’s e-Mail Preference Service [e-MPS], a database of opt-out e-mail addresses for use by direct e-mail marketers.  The boycott was announced with the new "cyber-protest" Mad About Spam website [http://www.MadAboutSpam.org].  We are encouraging all Spam Recycling Center participants to visit the site and sign the petition.

The Mad About Spam petition will be delivered to Congressman Gary Miller (R-CA) and Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) to help them move pending spam legislation out of the Commerce Committee and on to the full House of Representatives for consideration.

"If the DMA had their way, all the pending anti-spam legislation would die in the Commerce Committee and never again see the light of day," said Oxman.  "But that isn’t in the best interest of the e-commerce or the on-line communities.  We want netizens to come together in an effort to defeat the DMA and get meaningful action from Congress on this issue."

Please -- encourage your friends, relatives and co-workers to go to http://www.MadAboutSpam.org and sign the petition.  Help us put an end to spamming and defeat the pro-spam efforts of the DMA.

2) Spam Recycling Center Breaks Two Million Mark

As the calendars rolled over to 2000, the counter on the Spam Recycling Center rolled over to 2,000,000 and still counting. 

"With the holidays coming to a close and the record numbers of consumers going on-line to shop, I can only expect that the Spam Recycle Center is going to see even more spam contributed in the coming months," said Oxman.  

As the new year starts, we are examining new ways to use the SRC spam database to illustrate the growing problem of spam and as a research tool in the fight against spam. 

"The SRC database is the definitive definition of spam," said Oxman.  "Netizens contributed every message in that file.  With each contribution they are deciding what spam is and how it is evolving.  It is my hope that our continued research will yield new ways to battle the growing spam problem."

What can you do?  Please spread the word and continue to contribute your spam to spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com.  Also, join the thousands of other netizens in our first-ever "cyber-protest" at http://MadAboutSpam.org.  

Thank you for supporting the Spam Recycling