Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 19:20, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, how do you go about reporting it?
>
> Find where it *really* came from by searching through the complete
> headers and making sure everything checks out to avoid being duped by
> forged headers. email <hostname>@abuse.net to let them know they're
> spamming.
>
> Then, go through the message, find any email addresses they want you
> to reply to. Email abuse@<isp> and postmaster@<isp> to let them know
> a spammer is using their services as a dropbox.
>
> Then, go through the message and find spamvertized sites and find out
> who is hosting them and email abuse@<webhost> and let them know
> they've got a spammer running a site with them.
Isn't this exactly what SpamCop (which you said in another post you use)
does for you, more or less automatically? I can't believe anybody has
time to sift through e-mail headers manually to do all this. Why not
recommend subscribing to SpamCop and forwarding the spam to the
reporting address?
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