OT - Suggestions for dealing with spam

Narrew · #1 August 9th, 2003, 11:39 PM

One thing that I would add is NOT to reply to any spam, they may take you off their list, but they will add your "verified" address to be sold.

If you want to be on the offense then go to www.networksolutions.com/ and there is a way to track down a company, do a WHOIS, the site is not up atm, but I think you can use the domain name or IP address and find out the service provider that serves the web access to that company that is spamming you. Then you send a letter to the service provider AND send a copy of the letter to the states BBB and (I am not for sure which state goverment agency).

You can get the spammers info by looking at the properties of the e-mail it should have some IP address's and other things that may be confusing, but you can get the idea of who the originator is.

Good luck, I am single so I just delete the crud that gets through, but if I was a parent, this type of spam would get on my nerves.

Fyron · #2 August 9th, 2003, 11:54 PM

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Originally posted by Mathias_Ice:
Ah, good old Disney.When I was a kid you could trust them for good, clean fun. And now, like 99.9% of all American corporations, the bottom line and political correctness is all that matters.

Gotta love general Christian tolerance...

[ August 09, 2003, 22:54: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Fyron · #3 August 10th, 2003, 12:11 AM

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Originally posted by DavidG:
Have you checked if your ISP can filter spam? I have mine do that although it only gets about 75% of the crap. I get the rest with a program call Mail Washer which can automatically delete spam.

You have to purchase a copy to use it with Hotmail?

General Woundwort · #4 September 18th, 2003, 09:07 PM

Hate spam? You'll love this 'toon...

http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorkto...ewcomic&id=782

oleg · #5 September 18th, 2003, 10:08 PM

At least, some good news on this front :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3120628.stm

JLS · #6 September 23rd, 2003, 01:21 AM

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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
Unfortunately, one of the things that the kids like from the kid sites are various email updates and such. The only way for that to work is to give an email address that will stick around for a while. One solution might be to use an account until the spam starts getting bad, then get a new account. That doesn't change the fact that the situation is just plain wrong.If someone were caught giving my kids porn through any other media, they would be elligible for long term free room and board in a government provided institution.

Agreed

Not just "caught giving my kids" but even offering it to a child. The day will come for any and all, and this should be a International Law as to prevent this junk from coming in from abroad; as well

Loser · #7 September 22nd, 2003, 02:06 PM

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Originally posted by JLS:
this should be a International Law as to prevent this junk from coming in from abroad

Not likely. Can you imagine trying to prosecute someone in, say, the Netherlands? How about Mexico? Or Honduras? It's just not feasible. It should be possible to apply similar laws to perpetrators in the U.S., however. But that doesn't stop them from trying to sell me armature video from a cage fight (newest one I've seen).