I'm getting spammed every week by about 4 different companies, most are webhosts.

I load up spews and spamhaus (I think that's how you spell it) to try to submit the emails, headers and all. No luck, they only add what they want, seems a bit unfair as there's nothing I can do?

What popular spam databases (that people use to bounce/block emails) allow you to submit to them?

P.S. Anyone getting "Investors Insight" spam?

Originally posted by DarktidesNET
I'm getting spammed every week by about 4 different companies, most are webhosts.

I load up spews and spamhaus (I think that's how you spell it) to try to submit the emails, headers and all. No luck, they only add what they want, seems a bit unfair as there's nothing I can do?

What popular spam databases (that people use to bounce/block emails) allow you to submit to them?

P.S. Anyone getting "Investors Insight" spam?

What really pisses me off is when the spammer claims "you are on this list either because you signed up for it, or are receiving it on accident".

Use spamcop.net

I don't believe in anti-spam programs for the fact that they only prevent you from receiving the spams but the spams will actually reach the servers. I believe in removing problems at its roots so I use spamcop.net to trace the origin of the spam and kill it.

Report it directly to their upstream provider :gthumb:

Yep, I take it straight to Spamcop.

That way the providers are made aware of the UCE.

Originally posted by DangerMouse
Yep, I take it straight to Spamcop.

That way the providers are made aware of the UCE.

Who is the spamcop and what is UCE?

www.spamcop.net

UCE = Unsolicited Commercial Email (posh term for spam)

;)

Originally posted by DangerMouse
www.spamcop.net

UCE = Unsolicited Commercial Email (posh term for spam)

;)

Thats good :) Good to start the day with a laugh

I have noticed an definate increase spam from webhost and webhost related garbage recently. How many of these spammers crawl and harvest addresses from WHT?

Originally posted by DangerMouse
www.spamcop.net

UCE = Unsolicited Commercial Email (posh term for spam)

;)


Thanks!:D Huh...really posh!

Originally posted by addvalue
Thanks!:D Huh...really posh!

Well, I have my moments :stickout:

I've been working quite a bit with the filters on Spam Assasin. Although it's pains taking it is working. On my box at home I use Mail Washer. (mailwasher.net) They have a freebie version and a pro version.

I've d/led the pro trial version I've never used it so I'm not sure how it works. But the freebie version works well for a freebie.

By using Spam Assasin serverside and Mail Washer locally together my spam has dropped from 30 or 40 spams a day down to about 4 or 5.

Originally posted by dbbrock1
What really pisses me off is when the spammer claims "you are on this list either because you signed up for it, or are receiving it on accident".
gotta agree with you on that one. Spam by itself already annoys me, but to be told a blatant lie that i "signed up for it" is beyond adding insult to injury!! *steam coming from ears* i will never, never, *never* buy anything from a spammer!!!

hell, i had to take all my address and name info off my domain records because NETSOL wouldn't stop sending my junkmail. :angry:

what i don't understand is why people keep sending the stuff. unless there are really fools out there who respond to these offers :rolleyes:

I signed up for spamcop so I could start reporting but they never sent me my emial....

Was that today Bryan?

That's the real problem. Spamming is relitivly cheap for the spammers since it's the ISP's and end users that pay for the end results. (i.e. Serverload, wasted space, pain in the arse, etc.) So if one person purchases a product or service from the spammer it's practically paid for itself. Sad but true. The same goes fo junk mail (Snail Slime mail). Unfortunatly these companies are allowed to send bulk mail with each item costing a fraction of the cost it would cost you, or I to send one letter. Sad but true..

The USPS keeps allowing the garbage to keep flowing, meanwhile they post the price on the consumer while it's the big business junk mailers who cause more than half the load on the system yet they get discounts for bulk mailing! Makes allot of sense don't it?

Another reason why I prefer email whenever possible (Inspite of the spam issue) over the USPS. It's not that I'm cheap it's my personal protest against the Post Office I guess. If it must be mailed I try to send it via a corperate service such as UPS, Fed-Ex, etc. Overall they seem to be cheaper than the post office too!

No this is the best one:

This is not SPAM under the Federal Regulatory laws of the United States, we have included contact info !
This message is being sent to you in compliance with the Federal legislation for commercial e-mail !
(H.R.4176 - SECTION 101 Paragraph(e)(1)(A)) AND Bills.1618TITLE III passed by the 105th U.S. Congress

PURE UNADULTERATED BULLCRAP! IF ITS UNSOLICITED IT IS SPAM! I PERSONALLY WONT STOP UNTIL UPSTREAM PROVIDERS SPEND AS MUCH TIME GETTING THEIR IP SPACE UNBLOCKED AS I DO REPORTING SPAM COMING FROM THEIR NETWORK!

*grin* not to mention the poor trees :) yeah, i don't use the post office much either, come to think of it. those yearly stamp hikes are getting a little annoying, and the couriers, as you say, aren't all that much more expensive. and they're faster! :)

Originally posted by kneadingu
PURE UNADULTERATED BULLCRAP! IF ITS UNSOLICITED IT IS SPAM! I PERSONALLY WONT STOP UNTIL UPSTREAM PROVIDERS SPEND AS MUCH TIME GETTING THEIR IP SPACE UNBLOCKED AS I DO REPORTING SPAM COMING FROM THEIR NETWORK!
ROTFLMAO!!!! :D

i've given up reporting it. doesn't really help. what i do have now is the world's fattest filter list in my eudora :} :)

If the upstream providers would kill any email that has a bogus header. No reply address, bogus domain, mail not sent from host's server, i.e. Bob@yahoo.com when the mail actually originated from buytodayusa.com.

I'd love to see some laws in place but unfortunatly, once we let big brother have a foot in the door before you know it he's passing out orders. I wish there were some other way to stop it but I really don't think there is.

Spam cop only works halfway.. It sends a report to the host admin. Well, if that host admin is the one hosting the spam, and in support of it you've just confirmed a warm body got the email! That does allot of good. That'll get you on about 4 or 5 new lists!

Originally posted by DarktidesNET
I signed up for spamcop so I could start reporting but they never sent me my emial....

I tried after reading this.. took them about 12 hours... but I got it.