On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, W.C. Epperson wrote:
> However, if most members of the list
> routinely replied with a complaint, included the spam message, and
> copied the postmaster, the resulting glut on the perp site's mail spool
> would be an innocent side effect....
I always reply to the spammer quoting the whole message and including one
line at the top:
Please take me off your mailing list
This is polite enough that it doesn't get spammers mad at me. I put it at
the top of the message so it cannot be missed. I include the entire text
of the SPAM and attached files (once a 2 megabyte FAQ in Word 6.0 format)
to help clog up the spammers mailbox and make his life difficult. One copy
is enough and cannot be interpreted by anybody as an attack. If everybody
sends back their one copy, of course the effect is the same as a single
person sending a mailbomb.
Occasionally I will go further than that. The spammer who sent me the 2
meg Word attachment containing an FAQ on his form's products sent three
more spams during the same day. So I forwarded the lot of them to his
postmaster (postmaster @
dept .
company .
com) and the company postmaster
(postmaster @
company .
com). I also found the phone number and name of the
VP Marketing from www.company.com and left a polite message on his voice
mail suggesting that this individual should be stopped from blackening the
companies name.
I recently recieved a non-commercial SPAM containing the account of a
brutal rape of a young teenage girl from an AOL customer. I logged onto
AOL and captured the customer profile info, snipped out the relevant
section from my mailserver logs and sent that along with the message and
full headers to AOL's postmaster, AOL's TOS dept., the postmaster of a
relay site in Finland, and the FBI.
I generally don't bother sending a note to postmasters as a rule but when
I do, if the SPAM is long I trim most of it off and make sure to include
full headers.
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael @
memra .
com
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