I have to agree. I do consider invalid email addresses to be a
nuisance - an understandable one, but a nuisance nontheless. I do
maintain the FAQs for soc.history.medieval (by choice) and
soc.history.ancient (by accident), and up to now have sent them out
with complete and valid headers. The spam level is about 1-2/week.
> Personally, I use procmail to send 'make money fast' stuff to /dev/null,
> and to bounce back anything from cyberpromo.com or savetrees.com back to
> about ten or fifteen different (valid) addresses at cyberpromo.com. I've
> recently done the same for the cyber-broadcasting.com domain. For me,
> that takes care of maybe 80% of the junk that I receive; as for the rest,
> I usually call up the 'Administrative Contact' listed in whois for the
> originating site (which may not be the same as the domain listed in the
> From: header, due to intenional address forgeries), and complain about
> spam coming from their site. I've actually received helpful responses
> from a couple of sites (most notably, bigger.net) after doing this.
> I figure that it costs me less than a quarter to make the phone call,
> and it's well worth it, considering what I'd have to pay to upgrade my
> disk space and CPU to handle a massive increase in spam messages.
>
> Any other suggestions? Comments?
I always dig for the original senders site and send an email complaint
to his postmaster, and possibly to postmasters at the site were the
spam was injected, at the site a forged from-header or message id
points to, and the sites advertised in the spam (if any). I complain
about the waste of time and resources and include a standard boiler
plate message informing them of my charges for dealing with spam. I
never got spam from the same address twice, but many friendly replies
from postmasters.
Stephan
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