From: Donald MacQueen (dmacq_at_erols.com)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 06:54:05 EST
STeve,
Monday, November 06, 2000, 1:39:29 AM, you wrote:
> Yes, I certainly am, and have adopted a zero-tolerance attitude towards
> it now.
I used to get about 2 a day - no big deal. But since the summer, it's
at least 5 a day and some are in Spanish! So I have started forwarding
this crap to abuse_at_theirdomain.com. Most of the big isps actively
pursue these morons, and just yesterday one informed me that they had
terminated an account for spamming. It does pay to complain.
I also have my mail reader set to drop all badly-addressed mail into a
junk folder which makes it easier to deal with. I used to respond to
the spammers too, but some are just trolling for valid addresses and
this just confirms it.
> The instant I see that spam has landed in my inbox, I stop whatever I'm
> doing and look at the headers to figure out where the blasted stuff is
> coming from, and send mail to root@, abuse@ and postmaster@ of the
> originating domain.
> Once now, the people who were being used actually managed to catch
> the spammer in the act! That was a good feeling.
> I encourage everyone to do this, to get all ISP's to take this problem
> more seriously. The really big ISP's seem to, but a lot of others don't.
> --STeve Andre'
> At 01:29 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Bill Morrow wrote:
>>Is everyone getting more spam now..??
>>
>>--
>>---
>>
>>Happy trails...
>>
>>** Bill Morrow ** :-)
>>WEB page http://thinkpads.com
>>e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
>>open forum: http://www.afaonline.com:8080/webboard/$webb.exe/~2/login?
>>sic transit gloria
-- DonaldDonald M. MacQueen Registered Smalltalk Bigot, [Esq.]
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