OT - Suggestions for dealing with spam

[eorg]

Originally posted by Mathias_Ice:
If something can be aquired, it can also be avoided. Show me someone who avoids age.

no but one can avoid race - see michael jackson :-P

seriously - the idea is that age is not generic - and to make general conclusions about people is plain stupidity like the person i know says 'all arabs are terrorists' :-)

[eorg]

also - maybe michael jackson fights spam too

[Gryphin]

One difficult way:
Create rules to keep the specific sourses you do want.
Then have your friends put a key phrase on the subject line.
Everything else gets sent to trash.

[Narrew]

One thing that I would add is NOT to reply to any spam, they may take you off their list, but they will add your "verified" address to be sold.

If you want to be on the offense then go to www.networksolutions.com/ and there is a way to track down a company, do a WHOIS, the site is not up atm, but I think you can use the domain name or IP address and find out the service provider that serves the web access to that company that is spamming you. Then you send a letter to the service provider AND send a copy of the letter to the states BBB and (I am not for sure which state goverment agency).

You can get the spammers info by looking at the properties of the e-mail it should have some IP address's and other things that may be confusing, but you can get the idea of who the originator is.

Good luck, I am single so I just delete the crud that gets through, but if I was a parent, this type of spam would get on my nerves.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Mathias_Ice:
Ah, good old Disney.When I was a kid you could trust them for good, clean fun. And now, like 99.9% of all American corporations, the bottom line and political correctness is all that matters.

Gotta love general Christian tolerance...

[ August 09, 2003, 22:54: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Have you checked if your ISP can filter spam? I have mine do that although it only gets about 75% of the crap. I get the rest with a program call Mail Washer which can automatically delete spam.

You have to purchase a copy to use it with Hotmail?

[General Woundwort]

Hate spam? You'll love this 'toon...

http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorkto...ewcomic&id=782

[oleg]

At least, some good news on this front :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3120628.stm

[Loser]

Originally posted by JLS:
this should be a International Law as to prevent this junk from coming in from abroad

Not likely. Can you imagine trying to prosecute someone in, say, the Netherlands? How about Mexico? Or Honduras? It's just not feasible. It should be possible to apply similar laws to perpetrators in the U.S., however. But that doesn't stop them from trying to sell me armature video from a cage fight (newest one I've seen).

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by JLS:
this should be a International Law as to prevent this junk from coming in from abroad

Not likely. Can you imagine trying to prosecute someone in, say, the Netherlands? How about Mexico? Or Honduras? It's just not feasible. It should be possible to apply similar laws to perpetrators in the U.S., however. But that doesn't stop them from trying to sell me armature video from a cage fight (newest one I've seen).

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If there was the desire it would be possible. I'll bet they could prosecute someon from overseas if they sent GW Bush a letter bomb.

Seems to me the solution would be for each country to enact an anti spamming law. According to that article a lot of spam comes from the US.

Isn't some spam already illegal in the US?? Some of them have that little blurb and the end that implies that the law requires them to provide a way to remove you from their database. since we all know those links do nothing aren't they illegal?