Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:27:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: annoying spammers... Message-ID: <199712011724.MAA08108@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971201165137.11442L-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
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On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > Why not send an automated reply to all the people who sent you the mail > asking them also to complain to whoever it is who is sending the junk > mails in the first place, or if you can't find out who is originally > sending them get yourself (some account you don't care about!) on the > mailing list, so at least you can see the headers. > > I would hope that someone out there who is responsible for this junk mail > is reasonable enough to fake mail from some nonexistant address, > especially if you ask them nicely. > > If not, and if they refuse your quite reasonable request to stop spamming > with your email address you can take it up legally with their service > provider as they are fraudulently pretending to be you (especially if you > set up an account which accepts all mail to <randomnumber>@html.com). > > You've got a case of someone pretending to be you, I'd hope that US law > doesn't like that, and you can probably put someone either out of business > or in some fairly deep water. SPAM is one thing, 'framing' (!) someone is > another bucket of 'something-horrible' altogether. > > If their service provider doesn't want to know, how about the US courts, I > don'y know about you, but if someone started spamming in my name (or on my > behalf ?) I'd make damn sure they were sorry, even if it did include > hiring some laywers. > > Steve. > > Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. > Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 > WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/ > The headers all point to a class a that doesn't route. I think our domain was put into some piece of spamware. They all pass through a relay server, and all have forged headers. I don't think the morons who send spam have the knowledge for this. Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
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