Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
I'm desperate. For the past two weeks I have been receiving nearly 500
spam email messages from a single address every day. My ISP is Cox and
they can't help me because I use Macs. They are currently sent to my
trash, but I don't even want to deal with them at all. Anyone know how
to block a specific email address so that it doesn't even show up
anywhere? I'm using Apple's Mail on an Intel Mac with Leopard.
Short term:
The best place to stop spam is on the server, saving your time and the
Internet's resources in your downloading it.
Most ISPs provide customizable filtering mechanisms for that, usually
with a convenient UI in their Control Panel. I use Dreamhost, Bluehost,
and TierraNet for most of my domains, and all of them provide such
filtering tools (they all also support Rev CGI in their web space, FWIW).
Long term:
Spam can be forwarded to [email protected], where ostensibly it is cataloged
for possible future action. Details are provided here:
<http://www.ftc.gov/spam/>
But the history of that agency is one of inaction, and whether it's
willful complicity with the spammers, budget constraints, or simple
ineptitude, they have demonstrated themselves to be irrelevant in any
real efforts to fight spam. (They're welcome to prove me wrong at any
time, but last year's Florida shut-down rather makes my case clear.)
Far more effective is the work of a single individual with a strong
sense of mission and some good programming skills: Knujon ("nojunk"
spelled backwards):
<http://www.knujon.com/>
The fine gentleman who runs that site has come up with a system to
automate the cataloging and reporting of spam to the web hosts who
provide space for the sites advertised.
To date Kunjon.org has shut down more than 200,000 spam sites, orders of
magnitude more than all of the efforts of everyone at the US FCC combined.
But to do this he needs your spam. No really: he wants everyone to
send spammail to his input address so his robots and chew it over and
send out notices to the relevant web hosts.
He provides a convenient Firefox plugin, just one of at least a hundred
reasons to consider switching to this free best-of-breed mail client.
But even without that convenience, even manually forwarded emails can be
helpful, and if your ISP's control panel provides a tool for this you
may even be able to have filtered mails forwarded automatically (though
that should be done with caution to avoid false positives going to the
antispambots).
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com
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