Steve Coffman wrote: > It really makes one wonder. Do they know what kind of list this is? Of course not. The essence of spam is shotgun marketing, where you blow out as much crap as you can in the hopes of hitting a customer, with no regard what so ever for who ever else you might hit. A recent study found that 90% or more of spammed e-mail addresses were harvested by robots that collect e-mail addresses found on web pages. *Note:* that includes posts to this list, which are publicly archived. > On the other hand, can anyone take any actual action against them? A little <http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/?tc=1>. Personally, I use spamcop <http://spamcop.net/>. In practice, it likely does very little damage to spammers, but it does hurt them a bit, and tools like that are the only leverage we have that pushes back against the spammers at all. I also have recently begun using Mozilla 1.3 <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.3> (the Immunix <http://nxnw.org/distro/nxnw.org/RPMS/> version) as my mail client, which includes Bayesian spam filtering <http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/spam.html>. This works quite well, but unlike things like Spamcop, client-side filtering does not hurt the spammers *at all*, and just invites the spammers to to send even *more* spam, with even more variant spelling and formatting to try and evade filtering. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com HP/Trend Micro Immunix Secured Solutions http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/solutions/iis/ Just say ".Nyet"
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