Spamcop.net is a good place to report spamers to. ISP's tie into their database for filtering/blocking. -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Steve Holmes Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:22 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Spam. Comments were recently made about replying to the sender of some spam. I would only do this with the private stuff that gets forwarded/forwarded/forwarded from your friends or relatives. *NEVER* reply to "commercial" or "big time" spammers! They just use that as a confirmation. It seems like the majority of my spam stops coming if I simply delete and ignore. I realize this may be hard to take if you get 50 spams a day or something:). I have also forwarded (with headers expanded) heavy porn or money laundering schemes to abuse@.com. I have to take a good guess from the expanded headers to do this but I think it has yielded some interesting results. Some good auto filtering techniques would be interesting though. thanks for the snippets in a previous message. They warrent some close study. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.401 / Virus Database: 226 - Release Date: 10/9/2002