Try http://spamcop.net . They have a great tracking system that lets you or them report the slimeball to the proper ISP. I use it at work and have taken out hundreds of spammers! I also include the followng statement in my emails: "The following COMMERCIAL UNSOLICITED E-MAIL was received by our company. Please educate your users that this spam and can clog people's mailboxes and subject them to criminal prosecution. In some states, it falls under the definition of illegal faxing without the recipient's permission. (Device having a computer, modem, and printer and capable of printing images. USC 47.5.II.227: Under United States law, it is unlawful "to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement" to any "equipment which has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a regular telephone line onto paper." The law allows individuals to sue the sender of such illegal "junk mail" for $500 per copy. Most states will permit such actions to be filed in Small Claims Court, and YES we have sued many (thanks for the $$$). In some countries, notably England and Norway, it falls under the Criminal Statutes regarding unauthorized alteration of computer data or theft of computer resources. (Theft of access time and disk space.) PLEASE, EDUCATE your Users or cut them off at the phone line! " Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Burke-Scovill" <kethry at winternet.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:30 AM Subject: RE: [TCLUG] decent SPAM? (OT) > > I had a problem with being inundated with SPAM for a week or so before > finding out something to do - I traced the email back to the access point > and sent an email to abuse@<accessprovidersdomain.whatever>. I included > the full email along with the headers, and whatever information I used to > trace it to that access provider - within a day I stopped receiving 99% of > the spam I'd been receiving - most of them were coming from uu.net at that > point in time. > > Liz > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Jay Kline wrote: > > > Well, you may have been unsubscribed from THAT list, but now they know you > > have a valid email address, and will sell it to others. It is a dilemma I > > have been in for a while. Do I keep ignoring the spam I get? Or do I risk > > the unsubscribe feature? The few times I did "unsubscribe" I received an > > influx of extra spam for the next month. > > > > Jay > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Andrew Nemchenko > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 5:13 AM > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: [TCLUG] decent SPAM? (OT) > > > > > > Lately I've been getting messages from paid4survey.net offering me free > > gifts if > > I take their surveys. I'm not sure how they found me but all of that is not > > the > > point. The point that I'm trying to make is that at the bottom of the > > message > > there is a small link which you can click to get removed from their list. I > > was > > surprised to see that the link was not to a non existing email address but > > rather to a web site where I chose the un subscribe option. Then it > > apologized > > for the inconvenience and told me that I was removed. Just to double check I > > clicked on the same link again, and was told that I could not be un > > subscribed > > because no such account existed. I was so surprised to see a spam list that > > I > > was able to un subscribe from that I just had to write about it. Perhaps if > > other lists were like this then it would not be so bad. > > > > > > > > ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- > Imagination is intelligence having fun... > e-mail: kethry at winternet.com > URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >