On 12/14/2010 3:32 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 12/14/2010 2:38 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Keith Roberts wrote:
<snip> > Sorry for my lame email replies, (please excuse the pun), > but I had problems with my email recently. > > I've just had to clear out ~6,000 SPAM messages from my new > hosting providers web mail account :( > *sigh*
I've been getting bounces, because some spambot appears to be forging my address as a Reply-To, or maybe even as a From. I'm hoping for a bounce from a legitimate ISP, with a tech support/abuse contact, so I can at least see the full headers of the crap.
One of my addresses is getting about 500 bounces per day from some Russian spammer forging the address. Quite annoying. This has been going on for ages now. Not much I can do about it.
I'd like to see the actual spam. For example, I just got an ordinary spam... with a phone number in Utah to call. I'm seriously considering doing something I've been thinking of for a while: finding out who the number belongs to, and suing *them* under the CAN-SPAM act. I mean, the spammers are being paid to send out that crap, and I bet a *lot* of it is for people in the US scamming for $$$.
I could hope that the spam being sent under the bounced notices is the same.
Most of the bounces I get include the text from the spam, but they are in russian, so I have no idea what they are selling. Honestly, I don't even look at them anymore. I have a few rules that sort them off into a folder that I scan through occasionally just to check that nothing legitimate managed to get in there.