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Teach Spammers a lesson

Here are some steps to teach spammers a lesson as well as to eliminate spam in your mailbox

1) Use SpamCop. Go to http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml
Report spammers to their ISPs by simply forwarding your spam en masse to the mail id given by Spam cop.
Spamcop reads the header of the mail and sends a report to the ISP. The ISP can then block the spammer.
This way you atleast make the life of the spammer more difficult.The best part is that its free.

2) Use Whitelists instead of blacklist (PRovided you don't use web-based mail clients such as yahoo or hotmail).
A whitelist is where you say which emails you want to see. For example: I want to see only mails from myoffice.com
Here is how you can setup a whitelist is outlook express
Create 2 folders namely 'whitebox' and 'blackbox'
Got to Tools->MessageRules->Mail
And setup the following rules in the same order

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains ''
Delete it
and Mark it as read
and Stop processing more rules

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains 'domains you want to see'
Move it to the whitebox folder
and Stop processing more rules

Apply this rule after the message arrives
For all messages
Move it to the blackbox folder

3)Un-Suscribe from spam mails that has a valid http website (Never unsubscribe using return emails). I was told that

unsubscribing from spam will gets me more spam. But thats only partially true. Unsubscribing from spammers who has a valid

http site will usually work because they are easier to trace. But be careful what site you try to unsubscribe from.

4) Contact the mail administrator in your office and ask the spammers mail domain be blocked.
Note however that this does not always work. Some ******** spammer keep changing their domains. But I found that among the

100 or so spam that I was getting 75 od the mails had fixed domain names.

Posted by: zohnco   Posted on: 03/22/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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