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> >I ditched it months ago in favor of the "legitimate address"
> >filter....much simpler, filters faster, and seems to be just as effective.
> >I used to take the time to contact all the postmasters, but I gave up.
> 
> Automate the process.  I wrote a perl script called 'yell' that complains
> automatically - point a spam at it, and *grind* *slash*.   The next
> generation of it, "Rebel Yell", will even browse the spammer's Web page
> and warn everyone he links to that the page's owner is spamming.  
> This really screws up the spammers!!!   I've watched LinkExchange banners
> vanish off Web pages as a result of my complaints. 
> 
> Unfortunately 'yell' is in perl and relies on Unix tools like 'mail'.
> Mac users with perl can get some functionality out of it if they also
> have a unix shell account, but point-and-click it is not. 

The SPAMers have gotten very clever about spoofs, during my tries at it
manually, it turns only the postmasters could track it down. Just when I
thought I had which address was the right one figured out, it would turn
aout to be somewhere else in the header. This is why the AppleScript
automation never worked for me, I think...about 2 out of every 10
postmasters it whined to, I'd get a letter back saying "it wasn't us, it
was <insert ISP here>"

> >And as much as I hate to do it, I found that my "expanded e-mail address"
> >signature combined with a fake return address has cut-down considerably on
> >the SPAM I receive (that, and dropping my AOL accounts...used to get 25-75
> >messages of SPAM a week there!).
> 
> It is unfortunate that spamblocking works.  I no longer write private
> replies to people on Usenet, because of spamblocking.  A lot of people
> use a real-sounding e-mail address, and don't tell you it's fake.  
> I don't like sending mail into black holes.  

I can't blame you, and I know it is a practice deplored by the original
Usenet geeks, but I can see no other choice. Some of these mangled e-mail
addresses are harder to decrypt than others ("please remove the ____ from
my e-mail address"), I just set mine up so you can "read" the address
aloud and get the typed addy.  ;)

The e-mail address given as "reply to" is obviosly faked to anyone paying
attention.  :)

> The reason you got so much spam on AOL is because you have a profile. 
> Spammers do profile searches and then harvest the names.  There are 
> many commercial programs to do this automatically.  So don't have one! 

I had little choice for a long time.  =)

> >I've about as 'bot-proofed my identity as I can.  :)
> 
> I refuse to hide under a rock.  However I have a Big F*cking Gun and a 
> whole lot of attitude.  So spamming me would be a mistake. 

Your gun works, mine kept misfiring. I'm not hiding under a rock, I'm
carrying an active jammer.  :)   If folks *really* need to talk to me, I
haven't made it *that* difficult to do so.

=)


kevin at quosig dot com

"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good,
 Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood."