Unsolicited emails from a local company

Hello Chief Race,

I don't know how seriously the laws of Wisconsin treat unsolicited email
(spam) but I'm certain that federal laws are pretty tough.

I have received two emails, one for each post that I made to the w3c
discussion list, from WinPress hosting. Find one of them attached.

Could you kindly ask WinPress hosting to remove their auto-mailer from the
w3c.org emailing lists. In case you don't know, W3C are the body that
organise the public Internet, which means WinPress hosting may be sending
out 100s of thousands of unsolicited emails in the US and across the globe
every day. I have copied this email to the w3c list concerned.

What they are doing is disruptive to people using the W3C lists and should
stop. Find attached a copy of their advertisement. Their address is at the
bottom.
 
Best regards,
Richard Pineger
Cheshire, UK

attached mail follows:

 
 

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