Edward writes:
>Since you can see through the misrepresentations, just complain anyway.
>Make sure you have the right place to complain to. Much of current spam
>is so obfuscated that to track the source manually you must know not
>only how to read the Received headers, but also how to decode
>obfuscated URLs, track IP address responsibility through ARIN and
>APNIC, etc. For this reason I highly recommend using SpamCop
>(http://www.spamcop.net).
I've gotten pretty good at this - but spamcop has an advantage in that
they have a database of many different ISP's and addresses so that they
can also tell you things in addition to what you can get by parsing the
headers and URLs. It's worth going there and using their trial service
to see what they find.
>I've also heard good things about Sam Spade
>(http://www.samspade.org).
This is excellent - but it does the "pieces" rather than the whole
thing that spamcop does. I particularly use it to decode the decimal
format for the IP address.
(http://152.4.20.3/ and http://2550404099/ are equivalent URLs, but
you can't successfully look up the latter at ARIN. The "decipher"
capability at samspade will do the mod 64 arithmetic for you as well as
a number of other functions which non-unix systems often lack.
> ...
>As others have pointed out, spammers lie. Without the slightest
>hesitation. It's just a technique to try to decrease complaints.
Amen.
> ...
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