11 Feb
1999
11 Feb
'99
12:01 p.m.
To whom it may concern;
Your advertising e-mail was sent to a listserver dedicated to a
special interest
group. These individuals subscribe to this listserver for information
related to
their hobby, not for unsolicited advertising. I would _strongly_ suggest
that you
review your e-mail advertising policies and methods. Personally, I will
_NOT_ do
business with firms that advertise in this manner, and _WILL_ urge my
friends and
associates to adopt a similar policy.
Will
11 Feb
11 Feb
12:39 p.m.
At 21:01 11-02-1999 -0500, you wrote:
To whom it may concern;
Your advertising e-mail was sent to a listserver dedicated to a
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Rule #1 of spamfighting: NEVER reply to a spammer in ANY form. All it does
is confirm that they hit a live address.
I will not be surprised if your E-mail to them bounces in any case. I got
a note back from Hotmail this evening, in response to a complaint I filed
earlier, that the box had been nuked.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio:(WD6EOS) E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
SysOp: The Dragon's Cave (Fido 1:343/272, 253-639-9905)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
12:51 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:
At 21:01 11-02-1999 -0500, you wrote:
Rule #1 of spamfighting: NEVER reply to a spammer in ANY form.
All it does is confirm that they hit a live address.
2) Assume the return address is bogus, and examine the full headers.
3) Find the last "recieved from" line in the headers. This will
tell you the originating host.
4) Use whois to find the technical contact for the originating host.
5) Send a copy of the spam, with full headers, to the technical contact
and/or postmaster and/or abuse, and request that the user's account be
shutdown. They can determine the account from their logs even if it's
not in the headers.
6) If the originating host belongs to a spammer, ask their upstream ISP
to shut off their connection. (This is the last "received by" host.)
7) Don't send a message to this list about the spam. These messages
generate 10x the noise the spammer generated.
-- Doug
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