At 03:18 PM 11/19/01 -0600, Annie wrote:
>Well, I just got a reply from our local e-mail guru who says this outfit
>is in Italy and that there's really not that much you can do about people
>doing stuff like this.
That's just a lazy sys admin covering his butt. Complaints to the
administrators of the spammer's system, or the upstream connection, not to
the spammer's themselves, do make a difference, even if the admins are in
the business of harboring spammers. Hopefully there're in business for the
long haul, recognize that spamming is harmful to their business, and
terminate the spammer quickly. Spamcop is an excellent way of doing that
anonymously. I firmly believe that if everyone woke up tommorrow, said
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!", and complained,
there'd be alot less spam.
I throughly hate spammers. What they've done isn't just mildly annoying,
its despicable. E-mail services are not their free billboards damn
it! Around 1995 just a couple of them began spamming e-mail lists, and I
was forced to start battening down the hatches on what was formerly a list
that was easily accessible and open to everyone. Other things force me now
to spend time each day manually approving posts to weed out the
spammers. I can't use my own e-mail address on my FAQ. I have to use
Hotmail so that I can use their spam filters. The filters catch 20 to 30
spams a day. Without those filters I wouldn't be able to use that address
at all. The twisted propaganda that so called "direct marketers" use to
defeat attempts to make their chickbone bizness illegal is mind boggling
aggravagating, primarily because of the clueless masses and legislators
that buy into it and come away believing that spam is just mildly
annoying. It's dragging down the whole Internet damn it! Nuke `em I say.
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