On Sat, 18 May 2002, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I received your message sent directly to me, but not through the Arachne list.
Strange. I got it back through the Arachne list. > It is especially annoying to receive the same spam multiple times or to receive > huge spams. Annoying AND frustrating when you think you've blocked them, and they end up figuring another way around your block! > In the past few days I received a spam promoting that chain-letter > pyramid scheme from a domain ending in .cz, three times, 135 KB each time. I haven't seen that one. > If your message with its headers had been a spam, I wouldn't really know who > would be appropriate to complain to. Look at the headers. You'll see at least two or three sections that begin with Received: from ... and have somedomain.com [xx.xxx.xx.xxx] in them. Those are prepended so the bottom-most one is the originator. The somedomain.com part is a lot easier to fake than the [xx.xxx.xx.xxx] part, so using normal tools like 'nslookup', 'dig', or 'host' on that last instance of an IP in square brackets will tell you who that particular IP is registered to. If the spam came from a spam-factory, it won't do much to complain there, so you use ipw, to find out who the netbock owner is. That's usually the most effective place to complain. Once you have a valid domain name obtained from the IP, you can use http://abuse.net/lookup.phtml to see if they have an official abuse address. ... later... Matter of fact, I've just added the abuse.net form onto the ipw page. Before I actually go and change the name, let's have a bit of beta testing first. ;-) See if it makes sense that you can enter the IP address, get a result, and then stick that result into the abuse.net form further on down the page. http://wizard.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/ipw-abuse.beta.pl > Do you use fetchmail, and if so, where do you have fetchmail direct mail to, > since I don't think you can set fetchmail to download directly to a file? fetchmail appends multiple e-mails into one file... so yes, I have about a dozen different files, each of which is seen by pine as a separate "mail folder." You can set up your default pine inbox via the setup screens, and all the "mail folders" will actually be files within that directory. For instance, all the arachne mail goes into the "arachne" file. Big surprise there, huh? ;-) Netscape handles mail in the same way... each "mail folder" is really just a single file. -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
