Unless you are having mail forwarded to the ISP where you are receiving
it, go ahead and report it as spam. It is the IP address of the sending
machine that is generally observed. We have problems where we forward
mail for certain customers to a large provider(say AOL). Any spam that
gets past our filters is then forwarded. If the customer then reports
it as SPAM to AOL, AOL assumes that we are the problem server as we
delivered it.
Mason
Andy Gallant wrote:
Questions on spam (assuming this message gets through): Suppose I
receive a spam message with a forged but legitimate "From" address,
and then I report that message as spam to the email service provider.
Will that cause legitimate email messages from that legitimate "From"
address to be identified also as spam?
I realize this is a general and vague question, but really, is it
better to report spam or just delete it? Note: The messages I'm
referring to are phishing messages with fraudulent links where what
you see is not what you get, for example, <a
href="http://[evil-domain-name]/update.html";>https://[legit-domain-name]/IdentityManagement/</a>.
I hate this. I also hate the volume of stupid spam that clogs dummy
accounts I set up just to observe the situation and observe the
changing techniques, but that's a different issue.
BTW, I also got a spam message with an evil link exhorting me to
download Tor. What can anyone tell me about Tor itself?
Thanks in advance.
-Andy
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