Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 09:39:01 -0800 (PST)
To: (Vintners Net Customers)
Subject: spam prevention -- sendemail script

(My apologies if I've already emailed about this, but it's really much
more important than it appears to be on the surface.)

If you have any email addresses in any form on your website, please take a
moment to read all of this and think about it...

Imagine getting hundreds of unsolicited garbage "spam" emails EVERY time
you open your mailbox...  If your email address is on a website, this WILL
happen to you.  Maybe not this year or next, but by 2004? -- bet on it.

Here's the most important part though -- do you have somebody else's email
address on your website?  Think of the disservice you're doing to this
poor fellow!

You may have chosen to accept the consequences of having your own email
address on your website (perhaps you figure you'll just change your email
address every year or so).  Remember that if your businesses email address
is printed on letterhead or packaging, you really can never change that
address again so this plan won't work.

CHANCES ARE GOOD THAT YOU DO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE'S EMAIL ADDRESS ON YOUR
WEBSITE -- MINE!  If you have a "mailto" link for POSTMASTER, ABUSE or
HOSTMASTER at your domain, any spam to that address goes to me.

So -- even if you don't wish to bother for yourself, please consider using
the Vintners.Net 'sendemail' script; at least for email addresses that
point to others.

    http://www.vintners.net/
click "Customer information", then "Configuration information", tand
finally "sendemail script use".

I will be happy to help you implement it in any of your pages, just reply
to this email.

Thanks!

-- 
Mike Lempriere; http://vintners.net/~mikel/
WA State resident: junk email prohibited by law: RCW19.190 & RCW19.86