| John E. Malmberg 2005-05-31, 3:59 am |
| Someone wrote to all these groups:
> Dear sir,
[Fortunately most posters already know all of this, but there have been
quite a few people replying to spammers]
The spammer(s) are not reading any of the newsgroups being spammed, so
there is no point trying to respond to them.
Followups set to VMSNET.test where no one will probably read them unless
they are really bored.
If you want to do any thing to inconvenience the spammer.
Look at the headers in the message and report them to the posting hosts.
For posts that are made through Google, and some other free services,
the original I.P. address is usually somewhere in the header.
These can be looked up and also reported to the abuse address for those
ISPs, but still you are probably not reporting the spammer, but the
zombied computer that the spammer is sending through at the moment.
A network technician that is competent will not allow a zombie to remain
connected to their network for more than the length of time needed to
block it at the network hardware because they cause severe network
overload problems to their paying customers while spam runs are in progress.
There are several services that will help with looking up the spam
source and reporting it that are easily found with a search engine.
Advanced users can look into getting the zombied I.P. address listed in
one or more open proxy lists.
-John
wb8tyw@qsl.network
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