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Old 11-August-2005, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Astronot
The fastest way to get of off the list to receive bulk spam from your acquaintances is to hit the reply all button and respond with factual information and links to credible sources that support your statements. Most of the time these messages contain multiple email addresses of many friends of the sender. The original sender will be embarrassed enough to make sure you never get another junk email again.

Only do this if you don’t mind never hearing from the person again.
I tried exactly that with a person who sent me that Photoshopped picture of the SE Asian tsumani from last December. You may have gotten the pic, yourself... Anyway, I linked to Snopes and added some comments of my own, to which she replied something like "Why should I believe Snopes, I don't know those people." It was worth a shot, though.

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