To the original poster (I had already deleted his message) :
You may want to use http://www.spamcop.com to hunt down spammers. It's
an easy way of getting the complaints to those people concerned without
being an expert yourself.
Regards
Gustav
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Danny wrote:
>
> > - Not suprisly, on both am subscfrbed to the freebsdmailng list and redhatlist
> > - Therefore I am suspecting that person is getting my email address through
> > those two mailinh list.
>
> Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do to prevent a spammer from
> subscribing and collecting any mailing lists.
> If you have any proof that they're collecting addresses from redhat-list,
> it probably qualifies as theft of service and resource abuse, but I'm not
> a lawyer.
>
> However, you can try to have them shut down. Look at the message:
>
> > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Received: from mc2.law5.hotmail.com (1Cust84.tnt1.medford.or.da.uu.net
>[63.27.242.84])
> > by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA16830;
> > Thu, 8 Jun 2000 06:38:57 +1000
>
> The message originates from uu.net -> let [EMAIL PROTECTED] know.
> The spammer fakes a hostname in *.hotmail.com -> let [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> know. He's not actually using the hotmail servers, but claiming he does so
> damages their reputation and generates traffic and workload on their abuse
> department; some ISPs have successfully sued spammers over that.
>
> > http://3454552827/users/nfc4/teen5.html
>
> 3454552827 is 205.232.74.251 == FreeSpaceStation.com
> --> Go http://www.freespacestation.com/abuse.shtml
>
> If they don't react, according to ARIN their direct uplink is nsiweb.com,
> so you'll want to complain to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> LLaP
> bero
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