Well, I explained all that about what to leave out and what to change, check it out again. :-) As for a "proxy reporting service" you can use SpamCop, it's free but really a bunch of BS since I SERIOUSLY believe they are IN WITH THE SPAMMERS! The addresses they give to report to are all bogus and invalid for 95% of RIPE, APNIC and LACNIC, and even many USA based ISP and hosts! www.spamcop.net they are free, and about all they're worth too. The only benefit from them is you report to the ISP's and webhosts (that DO have valid addresses) and your identity is not known and they supply the contact email addresses, but again, mostly bogus. I need to go into more detail regarding them if and before you go with that method. http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml The other method is just make up an email address with Hotmail, Yahoo (ha-ha) or other free email place. Then when that email address starts getting attacked, (and it WILL with a Yahoo address since they SELL your address!!) just create another one. Use NeoTrace to put the IP addresses(Note below) and URL's in it to be traced and you'll see all the addresses. In some cases it will not tell you the registrant, so for those you have to go to any of these to find it: http://samspade.org/ (down a lot) http://network-tools.com/ http://name.space.xs2.net/search/ (also down a lot and doesn't work many times)
Sometimes with certain domain registrars you still can't find the whois info at these places either, so you have to go to the registrar itself. This is usually in the cases of http://opensrs.org/ and http://godaddy.com/ which will 99% of the time have the registrant whois info listed (that is the owner of the scum domain). I can't find the NeoTrace download right now. But it is made by Neoworx and any search engine would be able to find it. It's free. (The non pro version is). How would you be involved? Well, the same way I'm involved and more than billion others! Just by UCE. Free email places, ISP's, places where you subscribed to newsletters, email lists, etc., etc., all sell your email addresses to parasites. I'm not saying EVERY ONE of them do, I'm saying that all of these *TYPE* places WILL do it. They will sell them, and/or give them to ANYONE and that's how scum get our email addresses, and also in the case of websites their cyber-terrorist "SpamBots" harvest email addresses from ALL websites on the internet. Yeah, ignoring it is really a viable option since 90% of **ALL** ISP's and webhosts fully condone abuse and harassment contrary to their laughable AUP's which are only "eye candy" and "window dressing" for the FTC. It's more important for an ISP or webhost (ESPECIALLY on these networks below) to get as many "low-lifes" as possible feeding them money every month and they couldn't care less what kind of atrocities their members commit. We are going to start prosecuting under the new "Can Spam Act" that went into Law a few days ago. Of course this is only with USA based parasites......which I might add are growing VERY quickly to match that of those from APNIC. BTW: RIPE= Mostly Europe & Afr*ica APNIC= As*ia, but unfortunately also the mostly good people and friends in Australia LACNIC= S. America, C. America & Caribbean area (Note:) This can very tricky and where SpamCop DOES do something good. When you sign-up they will give you a proprietary personal URL to submit the UCE. You paste the FULL message headers of the UCE in the form then 'submit' and it will tell WHICH of the IP addresses in the message headers is the valid one. In many times, there can be several IP addresses which are usually open relays that criminal ISP's ALLOW to remain open to proxy UCE through! SOMETIMES they MIGHT close them after a few hundred thousand complaints! From experience though, you can tell on your own which of the IP address in the headers (if more than one) is the real originating IP and then you can paste that into NeoTrace and it give you the info on it. You also place the message body of the UCE in form, but that's a whole other story which I'd have to go into as well if you plan to use it. In short, the message headers AND message body must be modified or it won't work. This again is something else SpamCop has done to further impede the efforts of those that are trying to clean up the internet. Still another, is they will no longer report email addresses that the spammers use or send from within the body of the UCE!!! -Clint Happy New Year to all & God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barngoddess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, Clint & all, Thanks for responding. This is pretty scary.. why don't I just post my phone number and they can call and terrify me. HA! Someone on another list said it sounded like 'code', but didn't elaborate.. I vaguely thought it was meaningful to someone out there, but who? and how would I be involved? Should I just ignore it? or, How do I report it with an 'anonymous email address'? What do I leave out? (the gobble-digook wording?) Not sure I understand your explanation, but I'll read it again & again, until I do understand what to do. I changed my post from html to plain text to send it to this list and the other one I am a member of.. Someone did a googly on foothills.net and told me it looked like a legitimate website, who hosts other sites. They appear to be against spam. As if you and I don't have better things to do. I have dirty clothes to wash and stalls to clean. Good grief! Cindy ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrpheusComputing.com" This is just another typical BS spam from yet another parasitic infestation. Get used to it. :( >From the looks of it, it was originally in HTML format and you either tried to post it to the list (which will not work since the list only plain text), or your email program (or some other on your end) converted it from HTML format to plain text. That's why there are no active links in it. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
