Some months ago there was a small discussion in the Digest about
(undesired) ads.  Although there is sometimes a lot of undesired e-mails
and also some effort to trash them, maybe the following can help.

Marco Steinbach from Siegen wrote this in German magazine c't 1/97:

 "By US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meets
  the definition of a telephone fax machine.  By Sec.227(b)(1)(C), it
  is unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment.

 "By Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned section
  is punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500,
  whichever is greater, for each violation.

 "I will report any further violations from your site, which I get
  knowledge of to abuse@postoffice.us."

Claus Kucher¶
Vienna, Austria

 [ Editors note:
 [
 [ Jody remarked: "I am getting more and more unsolicited e-mail
 [ advertisments [here at foxtail].  I usually send a letter of complaint
 [ to the postmaster of the domain generating the mail.  For instance,
 [ "postmaster@foxtail.com" would get to the postmaster for my domain.
 [ In my case, that turns out to be me!
 [
 [ "I find Marco Steinbach's text to be quite interesting.  In fact, its
 [ intimidating!  Perhaps I will use some variation of his text the next
 [ time I send a complaint."
 [
 [ Then, on a hunch, Jody sent a test message to determine if
 [ "abuse@postoffice.us" is valid  --  It isn't !!
 [
 [ Thanks, Claus, for sharing "The Great Intimidating Message" !
 [
 [ Robbie Rhodes