I thought that I'd take a proactive approach to fighting spam in my email.

What are the ways to report email spam?

Is there a global database of spammers by URLs, IP's, etc.?

How effective those measures?


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The only real way to combat it is if you have blacklisted spammers from your email. There are lots of companies out there that actually keep a database on these, however a lot of the time they also block legitimate ISP's as well.

Until the laws are changed or re-written to combat it, it's almost pointless to try. People that do this just send stuff out of Asia which has no regulations at all.

As a matter of fact, I reported abuse one time of the offender directly to the ISP that carried it. Not only did I not get a response, I ended up getting MORE spam. Seems as even some providers are keeping spam lists now.

If your web host has an abuse email, abuse@yourhost.com, send it that that. Or contact the senders Internet Service Provider and ask them to take further action. Let them know that you have blocked the email address. ;-)

www.spamcop.net is a pretty good place to help in the reporting of things...