On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, J.D. Falk wrote: ==> I hope everybody realizes that this is very likely to ==> INCREASE the amount of spam that gets sent to the nanog ==> list -- even if we get less from this specific company. ==> I think it's time we closed it off and bounced messages ==> from non-subscribers. The "IEMMC" crap that Sanford Wallace promoted was also an engine to generate addresses for spam use. I know of a few people (including myself) who tested this theory by using a very old account from which we had never posted to Usenet, mailing lists, etc., and signed up for "less spam" through the IEMMC site. Almost immediately, these accounts began receiving nearly 20 spams a day. It was pretty sad to see that certain providers who promoted the IEMMC actually believed that it would be beneficial to users and not harmful. /cah