[PLUG] Is Reporting Spam A Wast of Time?

[Paul Johnson]

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:44:30PM -0700, B. Thoen wrote:
> For nearly five weeks now I've been receiving virus-spams from Road
> Runner's IP 24.208.135.215 -- about 1-2 per day. I've politely reported
> them -- headers and all -- to abuse at rr.com, and always received the
> worthless auto-response from them. Apparently, mail to their abuse team
> just gets ignored because I'm still getting a steady light drizzle of
> klez.

You might want to consider implementing my solution to the virus
problem, it's a bit more successful.  Many ISPs are a bit more
concerned about abuse that isn't victim-preventable.

http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt

> What's the point of trying to stop spam and viruses by reporting them when 
> the ISP responsible doesn't care? What does one do to get their attention? 

http://spamcop.net/ is good for actual spam (viruses aren't spam, but
they're not wanted, either).

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