Posted by Brian Cryer on 11/02/07 09:28

"Neredbojias" <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns99DB649C6B8F6nanopandaneredbojias@85.214.62.108...
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:26:18
> GMT
> Brian Cryer scribed:
>
>>> Have you tried Spammers At Large yet?
>>
>> No, nor would I knowingly use any service that spammed newsgroups (or
>> individual mailboxes).
>
> How about a company that spams you _every day_ with essentially the same
> come-on? That's what this bogus outfit allcoolmusic.com does. Sure,
> there's an opt-out link, and I used it. Eureka, the spam stopped - for
> about 3 weeks. Then it started again, to the same address. Seems like
> once they get a valid mailbox, they don't let go. To make matters worse,
> they're a dishonest comnpany selling free shareware software.
>
> What would you do about that? They currently list a foreign (physical)
> address, but there's evidence they started-out (and may easily still
> reside) in Canada. Yes, I have "junk" filtering on my mail client and
> have
> setup automatically deletion of spam, but what _should_ be available is an
> option to bounce certain addresses/domains back to the originator right on
> the server. I think that would go a _long_ way in stopping spam.

I would love to see an automatic reject of some emails. Not a bounce,
because the sender email address is often forged. However, to block emails
at the point of delivery so they wouldn't be accepted by your email server,
that would be good. It is something that some email servers allows you to
partially do - but only if you manage your own - for example Exchange allows
emails to unknown email addresses to be blocked before they enter the server
and likewise emails from specific ip addresses can be blocked.

However, back in the real world, I have a similar issue with some
organisations. Fortunately they mostly use the same email address and I just
have them going straight to my junk email folder. Little else I can do. :(

Needless to say, the whole issue of spam is one that has vexed lots of us
for a long time.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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