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On Saturday 04 August 2001 07:03, Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
> I read that the list administrators send the junk mail to different
> organizations. Could someone indicate one of them? I have some spam I want
> to send to them in order to stop the spammers.
>
You don't send the spam to the anti-spam organizations. They get enough of
their own. :-) You complain to the ISPs providing connectivity for the
spammer. You need to know how to expand and read headers to determine where
the spam really came from and what the appropriate targets of your wrath
might be. Don't overlook drop boxes and web pages listed in the spam. You
can get preferred abuse addresses for ISPs at <http://abuse.net>. abuse.net
also runs a forwarding service for spam complaints. For instance, if you get
a spam from an aol user, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will auto forward to
whatever address aol is using this week to handle spam complaints. Include
the entire spam with expanded headers in your complaint.
Best place for a newbie getting started on spam fighting to get help is the
usenet news group news.admin.net-abuse.email. They'll help you with
confusing or forged spam headers. I also have some links to tutorials on my
spam fighting page at http://oriez.org
Once you're comfortable, good tools to use include <http://combat.uxn.com>.
Sam Spade was my favorite tool in my M$ days, but it hasn't been ported to
linux yet and it blows up under wine. I have a query in to the author about
his plans for a linux port.
I'm using procmail now with good success, except my ISP's security setting
blocks me from invoking sendmail from the script for bounces.
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"Oh come now. At least pretend to be scared. The media spent millions
trying to psyche you up for this" - User Friendly, 08/01/01 on the Code Red
virus scare
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