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Spam
Spam filter or spam reporting service:
To identify the sender of an offending message, you may be
able to identify the originating IP address through one of the
following web sites:
Sendmail & other MTA (Mail Transfer Agents) support
facilities like R-DNS-Lookup & black holing etc.
Spammers Are Liars Who Say Spam Helps Business.
- Spam @ work wastes employee time = wages = lost
profits.
- Spam @ home wastes leisure time.
- Spam comprises 60% (*) of internet mail bandwidth, not paid
by the polluter, but by other innocents. (*): SZ reported Oct
2003 from Yahoo & MSoft.
- Spam costs net servers extra bandwidth & disc & CPU
costs to move the traffic.
- Spam filtering is CPU intensive
- Spam consumes yet more CPU time to filter &
discard.
- Spam filtering delays mail delivery.
- Extra net servers cost acquisition capital.
- Extra net servers incur running costs: electricity, wasted
energy, more load on air conditioned server rooms, more global
warming, etc.
- Extra net servers need more computer administrators: more
wages wasted, raised costs to consumers, & skills
wasted.
- Spam wastes money spent purchasing commercial spam
reduction software.
- Spam wastes volunteer programmers time, who write free spam
reduction software, when they could be writing something more
beneficial (if we weren't drowning in Spam).
- Spam drowns individually written genuine business
correspondence & proposals, individually written items to 1
or 2 specific customers, can take hours to write, but get
deleted with tens or hundreds of spams by one click.
Spam: Brand/ Noun/ Verb/ History etc
- The Spam brand of compressed tinned pork food product was
being sold, long before unconnected spammers started sending
unsolicited commercial bulk emails.
- Monty Python later did the Spam sketch (which also
pre-dated unsolicited commercial bulk email).
- Usage of the word is believed to derive from the
above.
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Reports Spammers To The Authorities
- Spamming from Germany is illegal, probably in UK too ?
& now also from California - (SZ wrote 27.10.2003 Paul
Willis & Claudia Griffin owners of PW Marketing LLC got
fined $2 million, + an )
- Spammers are scum, so disrupt both their business &
personal(*) life, as they intrude into both our personal &
business lives.
- Report them to Internet providers, black hole mail list,
the police, or anyone else appropriate.
- Do make sure you've found a guilty spammer though, &
not just a hijacked or masquerade 3rd party innocent etc. Most
people using email aren't currently capable of identifying
who's really spamming them, as the spammers masquerade as
others. So get help from someone knowledgeable, EG your
internet provider. Always include the full unchanged mail
header, which is vital to chasing & prosecuting
spammers.
There
are lots of pages on this, This is a growing index of which
abuse@ responders recommend what:
- Complain to: USA Federal
Trade Commission via Email.
Perhaps if enough people tell FTC they use a filter to auto
delete all [unknown sender] USA email, FTC might persuade the
idiots in the USA congress to repeal their obnoxious world
polluting spam promotion law [Bill S.1618 Title iii ?], because
it'll be bad for real American (except spammer) business, if
too many in the rest of the world auto delete USA email.
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