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Re: Abuse-Advice Required

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From: Denis McMahon
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 00:00
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On Tue, 09 May 2000 00:01:02 +0100, Harry Broomhall
<haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>1)  Send details of the posts (i.e. headers and suchlike) to 'abuse'
>at *your* ISP.  (NTL by some chance?  :-)   )  If they a) can be
>bothered, and b) are reasonably competent then the current account the
>guy is using will be killed.  He will of course go on to another
>account.

Most abuse departments have enough on their hands trying to sort out
reports about their own customers. The accepted method of reporting
abuse is to report it to the ISP of the abuser, not the ISP of the
recipient.

>2)  Wait.  All these idiots, without exception so far, get bored
>eventualy.  The best way to hasten this is to totaly ignore him.

3) Look at all his message headers and try and devise a kill filter.

Rgds
Denis
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