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Making it even easier is to use something like spamcop.net
Since a lot of spammers hide where they're coming from, tracert isn't
always reliable. Spamcop will 'decrypt' the mess in the headers for you,
no effort at all.
You can use it for free, with adverts, or, if you want to get a bit more
aggressive, you can pay $30/yr, and kill as many spammers as you like,
plus get all your mail vetted by them as well (pretty much guaranteed
to get rid of 99% of spam from your inbox).
oh, and kills? the best ones are when you hear back from the companies
that have -hired- the spammers, who then say "that's it, these guys aren't
getting another cent from me." that -really- hits them where it hurts -
in the wallet.
Si
At 23:36 7/04/2003 -0400, you wrote:
I agree with and do exactly what Alex says here. I have a few kills under
my belt as well. But it's not just because I, one person, complained. It's
because a bunch of people like me and Alex complained. Some ISP's will
listen to legitimate complaints about spam. And the nice thing is, if the
spammers all get moved to the bad ISP's, eventually those ISP's will be
blacklisted by the good ISP's and the bad ones won't be able to send email
to the good ones. This will eventually apply even to Chinese and Russian
ISP's but Alex is quite right that it doesn't apply today.
Kent Rollins
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Matulich" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Make it Easy
Blitz wrote:
> Why not make it easy on yourself and just add spammers to your "blocked
> sender" list?
Because it does nothing about the spam problem. What you're doing is
essentially what the spammers want you to do: "Don't complain to my ISP!
If you don't want the just hit your delete key. Or unsubscribe."
By the way, unsubscribing is almost always a mistake. All it does is
verify to the spammer that your address is a live deliverable address,
making it more valuable to sell to other spammers.
Spam is a problem growing out of control. AOL estimates that 30% of the
money their customers pay go to protecting AOL's servers and customers
from spam.
When I have the time, I make formal complaints. Occasionally the spammer
loses the account. I have a few "kills" under my belt over the past
couple years.
Some spam is a waste of time to complain about (like anything originating
from att.net, uunet.net, or from Asia [chinanet.cn.net, kornet.net,
etc.]). For those I do something similar to what you suggest: block them.
But they don't just go into the trash, they bounce back to the sender.
-Alex
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