Re: how do I stop a spammer or at least get my isp to listen to me?
From: N. Miller (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/08/05
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Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 17:44:33 -0700
On Sat, 07 May 2005 10:57:12 -0600, Bruce Chambers wrote:
> 1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
> forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
> been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
> addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
> so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
> example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your reply
> address, for example: "name@NOSPAMisp.com."
It is preferable to use "name@NOSPAMisp.invalid". Using any domain name,
whether is registered, or not, should be avoided.
> 4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
> utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
> server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
> from them will be automatically deleted from the server.
MailWasher can be an abusive tool if it is configured to return messages to
the putative sender. Most spam uses forged email address, so MailWasher
will pester victims of forgery. MailWasher, itself, forges an official
identity used by your ISP, which is a violation of most ISP's AUP/TOS
agreements.
> 5) Within Outlook Express or whatever other email client application
> you use, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders list, so the their
> messages are automatically deleted from the server without being
> downloaded to your PC.
The Blocked Sender doesn't work that way. From the MS Outlook Express Help
file:
"When you block a sender or domain, no e-mail or news message from that
sender or domain will arrive in your Inbox or in the news messages you
read. E-mail from blocked senders goes directly into your Delete folder."
In any case, with spammers using forged, or phony email addresses, and
changing them with each spam run, the Blocked Sender list is usually a
futile effort.
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