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rmattox
05-20-2001, 10:17 AM
A lot of the spam mail I get has the prvision of stoping any further spam by putting remove in the subject window of a reply. almost all of these replies come back with the address unknown. Is there a agency or group that will address this problem?

Russ Mattox
club_med
05-20-2001, 11:22 AM
What you can try doing is sending an e-mail with a copy of the spam to the ISP asking them to do something about it i.e. terminate the account.

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Bovon
05-20-2001, 01:00 PM
These spammers have setup certain email accounts to send out only, they do not recieve any incoming mail.

Sending back a note from the "required" email address to be removed from the list, located at the bottom of the spam does nothing, because the spammer changes their spamming email address everyday. They buy all of these email address from somebody that has captured these email address from forums like this one, where we leave our addresses inorder for the forum members and moderators to email us as necessary. They do this by copying and pasting the address into a file to be burned onto a cd, which they sell.

Two ways to keep email spam down at your home ISP is to create a free account at hotmail, or any of the online email locations, and only leave that address at the forums. You will get lots of spam there, but you can delete that at your leasure.

Second, if you place you home ISP address out in public, do it this way...k4yaw#hotmail.com leave a statement for anyone to replace the # with a @ sign. This dosn't stop spam, but it sure stops copying and pasting...makes it just a tad harder for the crack pot who is making a fortune off of our email addresses.
Fingers
05-20-2001, 01:58 PM
PCWorld's May 2001 issue has a section dedicated to "Protecting Yourself on the Web"

You can read the entire article (http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,44484,00.asp) , or just the section dedicated to spam (http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,44484,pg,8,00.asp)

There are links to 2 websites dedicated to stopping spam, although I can't comment on what they offer because I haven't visited either one.