On 03/15/02, ahimsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> someone (sorry, lost the attribution) suggested:
> > Report spammers to their upstream providers.
>
> Is using SpamCop good enough? I'm not sure I want to become an expert
> on tracing headers. Is there another option for those with a limited
> amount of physical and mental energy?
SpamCop is a good start, but it gets things wrong sometimes,
and makes some suggestions (like munging) which annoy abuse
desks to no end.
It's certainly far more effective than "just hit delete" as
the spammers and the DMA would have you do.
> I also have another question. On many pieces of spam I notice that
> there is a string that looks like it may be an identifier of some
> kind. It's usually found in the Subject line or at the very end
> of the message text but I have also seen it embedded in links. Are
> these tags that point to a particular "batch" of email? Or is there
> spam software that's smart enough to put in identifiers in each
> message that can be linked to a specific email address? It looks
> something like those distribution codes they use on catalogs to
> track customers.
Some people theorize that it's for tracking, and others think
it's a lame attempt to foil software which would count how
many times the same message has been delivered.
--
J.D. Falk "The kick defines the beat,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the bass defines the groove."
-- Phil Lockwood
_______________________________________________
spamcon-general mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers
Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body
of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
