Re: SPAM from stockhunt needs to stop

[pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>]

It's hard for me to jump directly against stockhunt for the SPAM that
the newsgroup has been receiving.

I am totally against SPAM myself, but more often than not, the
perpetrator of bad actions goes through the effort of concealing his/
her own identity.  Being a technical guy, I couldn't really tell
whether the SPAM was coming from stockhunt itself (a bad and maybe
illegal marketing strategy) or it could be from someone who wants to
give stockhunt a bad reputation.

I read csa2 through google groups.  How google groups gets its Usenet
newsfeed is something I don't know.  I do see that the posting has the
following header information:
    NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.69.139.140 (or sometimes 58.69.139.53)
    Injection-Info: r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-
host=58.69.139.140; posting-account=nVN2hwkAAADq7rAYNDBeWby0UPY4MG1O
Perhaps other readers who get their Usenet feeds from somewhere else
can discuss here what header information they have.

The "From" header is not reliable because it can easily be changed by
the person sending out the SPAM.  That gmail account may not even
exist (another way to make somebody receive a bunch of hate mail is to
SPAM using his identity).  Probably the most reliable headers are the
host-to-host trace of the path taken by the posting (and if certain in-
between hosts modify this trace, they should be banned).

If stockhunt is the perpetrator, then they be damned.  If not, they're
as much a victim as us.

Just my 2c,
/Peter


On Jul 30, 2:17 am, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> As everyone is aware this newsgroup (and others) has been receiving a
> ridiculuous amount of spam from a site called stockhunt.
>
> This morning I sent the following to the stockhunt registrant and followed
> by forwarding a dozen or so of their spammed messages. I think if enough
> other folks did the same they might quit spamming newsgroups including this
> one.
>
> If not I will escalate this and attempt to have their site shut-down. Their
> blatant abuse has really got out of hand and they truly don't deserve to be
> on the internet.
>
> The email adresses shown below are:
>
> keith at spectrumlawgroup dot com
> info at stockhunt dot com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Buckels
> To: ke...@spectrumlawgroup.com
>
> Cc: I...@stockhunt.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:50 AM
> Subject: Stockhunt Spamming Newsgroups
>
> Keith,
>
> You Jerks are spamming newsgroups promoting your site. In the past few days
> my news reader has filled with hundreds of messages from stockhunt
> contaminating every thread. You are coming-in from gmail as well as yahoo.
>
> This stops now.
>
> Why in the hell would anyone use your service after they had been spammed
> repeatedly by you?
>
> This has to be one of the least professional tactics and most unethical I
> have seen in my many years in the portfolio management and software
> business.
>
> I will be forwarding some of your messages so you can see for yourself what
> kind of crap you are inflicting on the rest of us.
>
> Jerks!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Bill Buckels