Greetings from
Snohomish, Washington - USA, where Jeeps don't
rust , they mold...
SPAM
What is it?
SPAM is the unsolicited e-mail that we all receive. It clutters our
inboxes, wastes our precious downloading time, fills up our harddrives,
wastes bandwidth on the internet and just irritates us with get rich
quick schemes or the latest unnecessary do-dad. It is also posts
to USENET or Newsgroups or Mail Lists that are not directly related
to the purpose of that list. These are not often as irritating because
you are usually able to contact the individual and "train" them.
What can we do?
We can contact our representatives and make them aware that we do not
appreciate SPAM. We can contact the service provider that was used
to distribute the SPAM by emailing to them the messages sent to us
from their hosts. Often this is done by forwarding it to "abuse@_____"
(the host name inserted).
We should NOT send email to the "REMOVE" address, unless you want more
SPAM. We should NOT mailbomb, ping attack, threaten with bodily harm
or hack their site. We should stick to the high ground and do what
we can legally and morally.
Where can I go for info?
Funny you should ask. Here's some excellent sites:
http://www.cauce.org/
http://www.vix.com
http://spam.abuse.net/
the other thing you can do...
...post a notice in your signature files like this:
**************************************************************
Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, §227, any
and all unsolicited commercial E-mail sent to this address is subject to
a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US. I am also a
resident of the State of Washington and bogus return addresses are
also subject to an additional fine of $500 US. E-mailing denotes
acceptance of these terms.
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This is what AOL says about SPAM:
Precendence: junk
X-Loop: abuse@aol.net
Reply-To: abuse@aol.net (AOL Net Abuse Handler)
Subject: Automated Mail Acknowledgment
*** THIS IS AN AUTOMATED RECEIPT NOTIFICATION ***
Thank you for writing with your comments and concerns. You are receiving
this automatically generated message to acknowledge that your mail has been
received.
All reports of abuse will be fully investigated by our staff. Please note
that due to the volume of mail we receive, you may not receive a personal
acknowledgment or indication of action.
In the event that you are reporting USENET abuse, please check the daily
summary of USENET actions posted to news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. All
accounts reported for more than 5 inappropriate or otherwise abusive
USENET articles are listed in this report.
Also, please carefully check the headers of USENET articles to ensure they
are not, in fact, forgeries--it is becoming fashionable for Internet users
to do this. Headers which will quickly point out forgeries include
NNTP-Posting-Host and Message-ID. If you come across a forged article,
please report it to the postmaster or abuse account on the site from which
it originated.
Incidents of mass-mail spams originating from AOL addresses are regularly
posted to SPAM-L on LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM and
list-managers@greatcircle.com. If you are a list owner, subscribing to
those lists may be of great value in combatting Internet abuse from all
sites.
Internet e-mail violations are presently handled by our internal Terms of
Service staff. If you continue to see abuses of Internet mail more than 72
hours after your original report, please note this and we will take
special action on the account.
If you do not wish to receive copies of this notice in the future, please
send mail to abuse@aol.net with the subject "No autoreply".
Thank you for writing,
Internet Abuse Team
America Online, Inc.
v.19980910
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