Matthew Harrison wrote: > no to create more spam with spam but in the last two days, the company > I work for has recieved: > > 798
You may have received one or two if you were subscribed. If so, they offered only information and a link to a page on the M$ website where information about a security issue might be found. The rest are all hoaxes. Although it won't do anything about the flood of such material, it might be satisfying to take some action. Use your mail client's options to view the full headers, and see if there is a legitimate ISP being used as the entry point. Then e-mail the owners or abuse address of the ISP, send them a pasted copy of the headers, and inform them of the nature of the traffic being generated through their faciities. Most ISPs have a vested interest in stopping such abuse. Some may even [though I may be dreaming here] make criminal referrals based o their investigation. I just mailed an ISP with the received-trace from one such that one of our faculty received, and did suggest such a criminal referral. I of course will never know the outcome, but it at least felt good to take some potentially effective action. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
