Matthew L Bennett <lord_buttmonkey@juno.com> wrote:
I'm hoping you guys would know where I could find out more about this individual -- I'm hoping that he does in fact buy his service from someone else, and if so, I'm not sure how to find that out. If he doesn't, is there anything I can do? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah, there is.
Delete the friggin e-mail like a sensible person.
I get a lot of spam every day, but I just delete it and go on with my life.
Since even many of the major sites these days seem to be run by a bunch of idiots who don't care that they destroy the network so long as they make a buck. 1) Trash mail from throwaway account providers like Juno (which I notice you're using), Hotmail, AOL, Prodigy, MSN, and anybody who offers something like a "fifty hours free spamming" policy. 2) Trash mail from chronic problem sites like AGIS, Earthlink, Worldnet, and their ilk. 3) If you get a flame for a civilized spam complaint (zippo.com did this to me) trash the mail from the site on the grounds that they're idiots. 4) If you get an incredibly stupid set of responses like I got from IBM today kill mail from them on the grounds that they have no idea what they're doing. 5) If it comes in with an obviously forged address then trash it. This has the possibly beneficial side effect of killing mail from "legitimate" users who purposefully use invalid addresses. 6) If it uses a relay site in one domain but comes from another trash it. A good example would be spam mail which is relayed off of someplace.com.au but has a "From" header which points to someplace.edu.tw, and has some other received lines which point to a dialup at MCI. 7) If it overuses punctuation in the subject line such as "!!!!!" then trash it. 8) If it comes in with a bunch of bogus IP addresses in the header then trash it. 9) If it's in HTML then trash it. 10) If it has lines over 80 characters nuke it. 11) If it comes in more than twice nuke it.
There are very good ways of filtering email, as well as methods of "proper" exposure to email harvesting bots. My suggestions are: 1. Create a "spam" mailbox that will be used to collect all email that looks like spam. It is much easier to review this mailbox once in a couple of days than to look at spam in the mail email mailbox. 2. Create one or more mailfolders for mailing lists you receive. Save all mailing list messages to them. (you may want to save everything that was sent by *owner* as it is likely to be legitimate mailing list messages). 3. Everything else that does NOT mention one of your legitimate addresses is likely spam, and needs to be saves into the spam mailbox. 4. Keep a database of spamming patterns and spamming domains and save everything matching these patterns to the spam mailbox. (my database is attached below). 5. Post to USENET using an address that reaches you, but is different from your email address. Anything that comes in as sent to that address (usually Received: field contains the destination address) but does not start with Re: or is not addressed to that address is spam, and needs to be saved into the spam mailbox. 6. This will inevitably flag some legitimate messages as spam. Be careful reviewing the spam mailbox. igor ^From: trichosis@noci.com ^From:.*chaspub@onecom.com ^From:.*@news-release.com ^From:.*isp-inter.net ^To: All@Internet.Users ^From:.*success@ ^From:.*orders@compugen.net ^From:.*dispatch@cnet.com ^Received:.*isp-inter.net ^From: distributor@jax.gulfnet.com ^From: NETDATA Intl Inc ^From ChrisMSW1@aol.com ^Reply-To: phnxgrp ^From: sbear1@earthlink.net ^From: .*@pwrnet.com ^From: gary@safetydisk.com ^Subject: How to get MORE ORDERS for ANYTHING you sell ^Subject: EL Cheepo Web pages ^Message-Id: Ready Aim Fire ^Message-Id: RAF ^Subject: Saw you Online\! ^Subject: THINNING HAIR ^From: express@capella.net ^From: .*fgle5@ziplink.net ^From: .*softcell.net ^To: bubbac@webconnect.com ^Received: .*IQ-Internet.com ^From: freedom ^To: Friend@public.com ^To: .Recipient list suppressed. ^Received: .*Cyber Promotions ^From: money@ ^From: rocket3@ibm.net ^From: Svetlana <info@svetlana-spb.com> ^From: .*remove@ ^From: .*@GettingRich.com ^Subject: .*README! It may change your life forever! ^X-Shocking-Web-Page: ^To: you@ ^X-Advertisement: ^From: .*@shoppingplanet.com ^X-Mailer: Emailer Platinum ^From: dkg@sparrow.spearhead.net ^From: .*floodgate ^Igor Chudov @ home, ^Subject: Your Family Name
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