[Techtalk] Over-zealous spam filtering (by Raven's ISP?)

[Grrliegeek]

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On Saturday 21 September 2002 01:12 am, Carla Schroder typed thusly:
CS> Your banned list is as fine a collection of knaves and scoundrels as I 
have 
CS> ever seen, I recognize a lot of them: (snip list)

CS> are just a small sample of persistent, unrepentant, prolific spammers.
CS> 
CS> Too bad there is no good way to retaliate. <dreaming of mackerel whackers>

There are ways that are legitimate and non-abusive to innocents. The two major 
ones I know of are:
1 - Report spam you get to the ISP where it originated, and if it lists a 
website the ISP hosting the website. You can do this fairly quickly and 
easily through www.spamcop.net. I find it satisfying to get spam accounts 
shut down. Send a cc to uce at ftc.gov - the FTC is collecting spam as evidence 
in considering what to do about the problem.

2 - There is a cgi script out there somewhere that you can use on your website 
for those that have one. It creates pages full of bogus e-mail addresses with 
fake domains (so that no real domains get hurt). They get harvested by spam 
bots that harvest e-mail addresses from the web, clogging the spam bots with 
useless addresses and making them lots less useful to spammers. This hurts no 
one but those who harvest e-mail addresses.

Syleniel
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