Spam

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

     Regarding the recent flurry of spam: Perhaps it would be a good idea for
users here to begin to replay to spam messages as email to the related _abuse_
address. 

     You set your browser to Full Heading, click the message, and reply to
Sender but change the email address to the indiated abuse address in the
heading (if there is one). Include the posted spam and a copy of the header.

     If there is no abuse address in the header, I guess you would look at the
Path in the header and/or the message ID.

Example:

>>
Path:
typhoon01.swbell.net!cyclone.swbell.net!nntp.giganews.com!news-feed1.tiac.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.cfw.com!paxfeed.eni.net!aol.com
             From: 
                   a32msocal@aol.com
        Newsgroups: 
                   comp.sys.apple2.programmer, comp.sys.apple2.usergroups,
comp.sys.arm, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy
            Subject: 
                   18+ ONLY PLEASE 67877
              Date: 
                   Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:20:31 -0600
       Organization: 
                   TEEN TOWN
             Lines: 
                   9
       Message-ID: 
                   <030999192031@aol.com>
          Reply-To: 
                   genuine@yahoo.com
 NNTP-Posting-Host: 
                   57.pao900.pool.eni.net
              Xref: 
                   cyclone.swbell.net comp.sys.apple2.programmer:1614
comp.sys.apple2.usergroups:1515 comp.sys.arm:1969 comp.sys.atari.8bit:20672
                   comp.sys.atari.advocacy:3019




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     In the above, it seems that this stuff came from aol.com; so, the email
would go to -->   abuse@aol.com

     Or, maybe, someone has a better idea.



Rubywand