Spam...

[Brian Carling]

Or just make it easy on yourself and let SPAMCOP do all the tracing automatic. It's
free, and sends a complaint to the REAL source of the spam.

www.spamcop.net

You can have it also BLOCK spam if you pay but I don't bother with that as I only
get about 1 or 2 a day.

I report these swines religiously though, and I also demand that they be kicked off!

On 29 May 2002 at 12:35, Ed Kotkiewicz wrote:

> There are really only four choices left to the user in dealing
> with spam.
>
> 1. Switch OS's to something like Linux.  Not real sure if this is a
> fix forever or just a temp. measure.
>
> 2. Ignore and use the delete key. NEVER respond to the
> self-serving offer to remove your name within a piece of spam.
>
> 3. Go after spammers with a vengence.  This, of course takes a
> little time and effort and may require that your ISP wants to play the
> same game.  I happen to have a very helpful ISP that will block/filter
> spam.  To date, they have blocked over 4000 domains. This can get
> tricky if they become overzealous and block US domain names/addresses.
>  My ISP currently blocks "earthlink" as they have been non-responsive
> in tending to their own users.  If you learn how to read the msg.
> header, you can sometimes track these jerks down by notifying the
> routing ISP that they have an offender. Most do NOT want spammers
> using their system.  I use a tool called VisualRoute
> http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/index.html  I am not an employee
> and only use the tool to id offenders. Another tool is available at
> http://www.arin.net/ and can help a person validate the IP address.
> There is a new move by the spammers being used called "spoofing"
> Imagine your shock when you receive spam and the sent by address turns
> out to be YOUR address that someone has stolen..........neat, eh?
>
> 4. Last but not least...........quit using Internet.  A harsh
> solution but effective.
>
> Sorry for taking this off topic and I won't talk about it again
> except off-list.  It is just a subject that I see a lot of
> mis-information about.  As long as you communicate with friends
> who are too lazy to "copy and paste" jokes and stuff and drop the
> names off, you will get spam.  People who love to use the "fwd" option
> will get spam.  Live with it folks.
>
> Back to the "Green stuff"
>
> Ed
>
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