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I'm getting more and more of this kind of crap sent to me. I have a procmail script which greps a file of undesirable addresses I've compiled, but that hasn't proven very useful as there aren't many repeat offenders. (the procmail script is available at http://www.universe.digex.net/~mbr/unix/junkmail.html) How are other people dealing with this?
So far, I've been sending them my offer for SPAM PREVENTION CONSULTING! at my usual rates of $250/hour, minimum 2 hours, plus any legal and collection fees required. One of them has a human reading the responses (the CHAG folks), who's not highly impressed (:-), while the folks with the hundreds-of-thousands-of-spam-victims-email-addresses lists have only robo-replied, though they've both sent a second set of spam and are thus billable :-) I assume, since the robo-spammers are posting from a new email address this time, that either their previous ISPs have dumped them, or perhaps that they're using the same ISP and multiple domain names to hide it, probably the former. CHAG is more blockable, since they're trying to portray an image of stability and trustworthiness, as opposed to hit-and-run. Meanwhile, large numbers of replies can always get their attention; I haven't tried forging the address of the robo-spammers' robo-reply-bot on a message to them to see if it knows not to spam itself, but if a thousand people were to do it, they might start to think it was a movement or something..... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Confuse Authority!