[RTTY] SPAM

[Garry Shapiro]

Ditto that, Houston....

Trying to live up to my confrontational image, I took out after every Spam
sender I could identify. I responded to their "remove me" messages, and went
after them and their ISP's when there were no such messages. I created
filters--almost 200 of them, at last count. I forwarded every received Spam,
with full headers, to my ISP, with a request for action. I sent letters to
the domestic advertising associations to which many spammers nominally
belong, and to whose canons they must supposedly adhere.

The result? I now receive a veritable flood of unwanted
solicitations---about one in every half-dozen emails! That means 10 or 12
per day, minimum. The ISP has stopped even acknowledging receipt of the
forwards, much less acting upon them. For every email caught by a filter, 50
get by, since the senders have mastered the low art of hiding behind
legitimate email addresses, or jumping from ISP to ISP, one step ahead of
the law, so to speak. Send the crap and bail out. The letters to the trade
associations provide a temporary respite from phone solicitors and email
spammers, but the letters need to be resent periodically (new players keep
popping up), and only domestic spammers and solicitors are blocked---and
much of this crap comes from overseas.

They love responses, negative, postitive or ambivalent---it means there is a
live one on the other end, and that address can be resold. The harder you
fight, the more ground you lose.

These people are cockroaches. They see the Internet as their private dining
room, and they abide by no rules. Insurance, stocks, sexual stimulants,
pornography, credit assistance, tax assistance, banking, mortgages,
privacy....no subject is missed. Hitting at them is like hitting the tar
baby. I used to think just hitting the DELETE key was a copout---but now I
think it is the only defense, akin to stepping on individual cockroaches
when you find them. The Internet needs a fumigator, in the shape of
Congress, but our elected representatives seem curiously ineffectual here.

Oh, there is one more defense---I have changed my email address. Henceforth,
I shall visit no web site whose purposes are not clear in advance. I shall
not respond to any emails not clearly in my direct interest. I shall sign up
for no come-ons, freebies, trials, trips, promotions, contests (non-radio),
incentives or questionnaires, political, economic, social or otherwise. In
short, I shall constrict my Internet experience to the bare essentials. And,
if some spammer crashes a Reflector to which I subscribe, I shall consider
bailing permanently from that Reflector.

In short, Spam is a disease of our times....and I do not wish to deal with
it any longer. I'll see how long I can stay relatively clean.

Garry, NI6T




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160 meters---not a band but an obsession


-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-admin@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-admin@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of John Dyer
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 03:19
To: Kok Chen; rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] WWW.RTTYINFO.NET


Reported to ISP via Spamcop.

A reply back to christine@trafficmagnet.net) probably would add
another "live" address to their database.

John
AE5B





----- Original Message -----
From: Kok Chen <chen@mac.com>


> I would suggest that everybody send the spam
> back to the person who sent it (christine@trafficmagnet.net).


> > 73
> Chen, AA6TY
>
>

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