Gidday Andrew
On 24-Feb-01, you wrote:
> (trying hard to not put HELP in the topic)
> As most of you would receive SPAM, I guess someone here would be able to
> help me understand what is happening.
> What I have noticed is that an abuse@..... is not always available.
> So I would guess sending it to the next higher level provider would be in
> order.
There is a lot to learn about tracing spam, using whois, dig etc. Even
for an expert it's a very time consuming job unless automated.
Use spamcop. Go to htp://www.spamcop.net and open a free account. Read
up also on the benefits of a pay account.
All you have to do is copy to clipboard the complete spam complete
with headers, paste into spamcop's input window and click the Process
Spam button and in seconds ALL the spam reporting addresses are found.
Select by tick-box which ones to send off, and click send. I always
select all unless my own email address is found in the body text and
complaints about me generated.
Make sure your browser is not reloading pages from cache or you will
get an old spam report displayed when you try to process.
The spam I processed a minute ago had spamcop send complaints to five
addresses. Total processing time: about 15 seconds.
Also, spamcop intercepts and discards auto-generated responses from
ISPs' bots.
I believe that if as many as 10% of users took positive action against
spam then spam would go away. People who delete and ignore spam are
part of the problem.
Regards
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