🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <79ffhskh043cmq36l9h5tu7vpbvlvoh7es@news.demon.co.uk>,
	Denis McMahon <denis@pickaxe.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 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.

  Indeed.  But it is well known in abuse depts that sometimes the
ordinary user can't work out where the abuse is coming from because
of munged headers.  In such cases approaching your own abuse dept
should be acceptable.

> 
>>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.

  This will depend on the nature of the abuse, and the ability of the
user.  Most of these 'random char' type attacks are done from
multiple random hosts which makes contructing a filter difficult.

  Regards,
     Harry.