10/1 What's a good way to get back at a spammer without getting in
trouble? I've been getting mail from the same person a lot.
\_ Is this the College Tickling thing? Anyway, complain to the
spammer, the spammer's postmaster, the spammer's ISP, the spammer's
ISP's upstream, etc. until you get results. You can find out the
relevant information pretty easily with "whois" and "traceroute".
\_ I've found that an auto-reply bot/filter that instantly
sends the message back gets the point across that a) it wasn't
read, b) it didn't fill your spool, c) you didn't have to
delete it, and d) they're really only spamming themselves.
I use 'mh' for this. I'm sure the procmail gurus have a way
also. Works like a charm.
\_ Except you usually end up spamming some poor victim who
they forged the mail as coming from.
\_ Depends on if the source was personal or a
robotic UCE spammer. Works fine for personal spam.
Robotic spam from the same source almost always has
something you can filter for and just auto-delete it.
\_ Hit "d". I used to get shitloads, and just ignored it. Now I
get like 2 a week, if that. -John
\_ Filters. I used to hit 'd' but where I work now, all
sorts of crap comes in. Half of it is idiots complaining
via their own spamming anti-spam robots about receiving
spam from my site which didn't come from my site.
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