[brluglist] Spam

[Shannon Roddy]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:48, Larry Braud wrote:
> Everyone you receive, send to abuse at cox.net , maybe it will do some good if
> they get hundreds of them.

Or if they get so many of them that they cannot deal with it with the
staff they have, they may say to heck with it....?

Shannon

> Larry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Banker, Craig" <CMBanker at stupp.com>
> To: <brluglist at brlug.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:10 AM
> Subject: RE: [brluglist] Spam
> 
> 
> > You too.....
> >
> > It seems the spammers are guessing at yours and my new email addresses.
> One
> > of my cox addresses (which is similar to my at old @ home address) is
> > getting spam.  A virgin hotmail address I recently created that is
> > formulamatic (i.e. fname_lname ) and now is getting those university
> diploma
> > scam spams (I've got 2 real diplomas why would I want fake ones).  An easy
> > countermeasure to this fight is to create an email address that is
> somewhat
> > random in formulation and keep it off the lists.
> >
> >
> > Spam only belongs in a sandwich...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Braud [mailto:larry at lbraud.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:41 AM
> > To: CCCCList at yahoogroups.com; BRLUG Linux
> > Subject: [brluglist] Spam
> >
> >
> > I've started getting Spam and here is what Cox says about it:
> >             Question:
> >             How do I stop SPAM?
> >
> >             Answer:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >             If the sender is COX HSI user, please send this mail directly
> to
> > abuse at cox.net.
> >
> >             Paste (do not attach) the email with full email headers into
> the
> > body of your message. To turn on or view the full email headers in COX's
> > supported email clients:
> >
> >             Outlook Express: File > Properties, click the details button,
> > and this will show the complete email headers for an Outlook Express
> > message.
> >
> >             Netscape Messenger: View > Headers > All will turn on full
> > headers in Netscape.
> >
> >             Paste these into a fresh message to abuse at cox.net. Although we
> > cannot intervene directly with an email from outside of COX, we can read
> the
> > headers to determine which internet domain it actually came from (in many
> > cases, these emails use false return addresses) and we can then provide
> you
> > with the proper contact information (via ARIN and INTERNIC) for the
> sender's
> > domain.
> >
> >             If you or a friend know how to read email headers you can
> > determine the origin of the mail directly by reading the received from
> line
> > above the message ID line in the headers, but most users choose to have us
> > check this information for them.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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