Day:
Sure you could spend awhile at a search engine like <www.dogpile.com>
and try to figure out who is in charge of a company. But first your
gonna have to get the basic information about where the header of the
SPAM originated. Some of the SPAMbusting service providers will license
you their code - a few are open-source and most are proprietary.
Then you will have to learn their code and eventually you will be in the
SPAMbusting business because you spent a lot of energy and resources
building something that already exists. (Sorta like writing another
bookkeeping program... Ugh, what a waste of time. Too many small
businesses spend a large amount of resources on that waste. Cheaper and
simpler to change their internal business rules. Often it lets them do
things they were restricted from doing by their self-taught business
rules.)
Why bother, when their are professionally operated services which carry
the weight of a large volume of combined users. Stopping SPAM will be a
cumulative move in the social interaction patterns of the internet
community. By using a SPAM reporting service approach then you will
eventually get the attention of the greater social group and probably
change their outlook on the negative effects of SPAM on the greater good
of the community.
However, SPAM does have a social function, just like junk mail in your
postal mailbox. They both are an industry where humans are employed to
do work. Thus, they have a social and financial purpose.
Appears you disagree with the basic premise of the SPAM business
community? Which is okay, too. Because your willing to support a
business community which is making a social and financial contribution
by busting SPAMmers backsides.
To each his own way of combating the Dark Side of the Things That go
Bump in the Night...
John Oram
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:49:19 -0500
From: Day Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SPAM country source
John Oram wrote:
> IMO to help in handling SPAM use a registered service. Their email
> notifications matter. An individual complaining about SPAM to a mailing
> list is a waste of bandwidth.
Is there someway to forward the spam to the ISPs and
their corporate execs??
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