Doug, That's not entirely true. When an ISP's abuse dept. can do something then they do follow up and do something about it. It's just that there are emails that they can't do anything about.
Dave on 3/1/02 10:40 AM, Doug Brightwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2/28/02 9:55 AM, "Adam Boettiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you receive spam at it, aggressively >> take action to shut down the spammer. > > I tried that for a while, but discovered that it doesn't work, at least > without making a career out of it. Whenever I forwarded the spam to > abuse@whateverisp, it automatically generated a piece of junk mail > acknowledging my email. Then I got a second piece of junk mail from a real > person, usually a form letter, telling me that the spammer was not a > customer of the ISP, was merely pretending to be, and that they could take > no further action since they had no control over his account. > > As far as I can tell, unless you're dealing with a fairly inept spammer, the > abuse departments at ISPs are merely spam doublers. For every one piece of > junk mail you send them, you get two back. > > Doug -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
