Re: [vox] [OT] junk mail (physical, not UCE) (fwd)

[Doug Barbieri <doMAPSug@dooglio.net>]

I forward all of my spam (with full headers on, of course), to
spamcop@spamcop.net.

You get a mail back with a link to the spamcop.net site--the service analyses
the headers of the offending mail and figures out where it orignated from.
You have the option of selecting which hosts to complain to. It also adds
open relays to the ORBS database--stuff like that.

I'm too lazy to parse apart each header, so that's why I use the service.

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 11:39 am, you wrote:
> > i respond to each and every single piece of spam, with absolutely no
> > exception.  and i'm relentless.  using nslookup, whois and traceroute, i
>
> send
>
> > complaints to loads and loads of people, including 2 or 3 sites upstream
>
> from
>
> > the place that sent the spam, dns servers, noc's, the offending host and
> > every host which obviously belongs to the same domain that gets listed
>
> with
>
> > traceroute.  it's kind of the "this car is insured by smith and wesson"
>
> type
>
> > of response.
>
> You wanna tell me how to do that?  I've tried it before, but I find that
> most IPs are spoofed, and I can't find where it actually came from.
>
> It's a felony in Norway to send spam.  But then they let convicted
> murderers out on the weekends, if they ask.  pfft.  Anyway, if more
> countries made it a felony, I bet we would see a lot less.



-- 
R. Douglas Barbieri
doug@dooglio.net
http://www.dooglio.net

"There is no case...there never was! It's all just a joke, a big joke!"
--Former Inspector Wollenski