X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c81d70a83de2b4a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-25 13:32:03 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Sudden Spam Epedemic Date: 25 Feb 2001 22:27:11 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 49 Message-ID: <6uwvaev4gg.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Feb 2001 21:27:11 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: 25 Feb 2001 22:28:07 +0100, galapagos.ethz.ch Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!204.94.211.44!enews.sgi.com!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4603 "Stuart Moore" writes: > On my NG feed, we've just received 3 cable box descrambler plans and one > pornographic binary - is everyone seeing this or are the rest of you lucky > enough to have decent filters? They also arrive here (at least the 3 cable TV ones). > Anything we can do about it? Most spammers: Identify the providers of: - their net access (see the NNTP-Posting-Host: line) - their usenet access (see the tail of the Path: line) - their mail boxes (particularly those to anwer to) (see the From:, Reply-To: lines and addresses in the text) - their advertised web sites (see URLs in the text) and then mail (forward the spam) to abuse@provider and postmaster@provider and demand to have the net access or mail box or web site closed down. Repeat this for every spam that makes it through to you. Usenet and Email. The more people who do this, the faster the spammers net resources disappear, and the less spamming makes an profit. This particular cable TV spammer: He has no mail box and no web site and treats net access as "hit and run". So the best is to forward them to uce@ftc.gov so that they follow up the phone numbers and postal mail boxes to get him. Note: this is a government agancy mail box (federal trade commission), so the more people that complain of an particular spammer, the more likely they are going to take this particular spammer serious. That is also why you should not distract them with spams where you can go to the providers. Alternatively if you are in Florida: follow up the postal address and find out if local law enables you to privately sue him (for wasting you resources, see also anti FAX spam laws). -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng FH/BSc, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, LARPer, Mystic