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Re: spam from this list?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Fri Nov 22 15:49:21 1996

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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 22 Nov 1996 15:18:05 GMT
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In article <571l3l$3b6@halon.vggas.com>, sledge@intellinet.com says...

>> Just to see, has anyone else on this list received spam lately from 
>>       info@maraphone aka maralist@icgroup.net
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>   Just got one from this address this morning...friggin annoying. 
>   Haven't heard from the other two...
>
>>       Emerald@earthstar aka emeraldette@pop.a001.sprintmail.com
>>       autumn@industry.net aka autumn@gtwinc.com

What I generally do is examine the *body* for feedback (generally WWW or email)
addresses, forget the "From: " line, and then run whois to find the 
administrative and technical points of contact.  Then run traceroute to figure 
out who their ISP is and send a letter of complaint to all three.  

-- 
James Youngman       VG Gas Analysis Systems |The trouble with the rat-race 
 Before sending advertising material, read   |is, even if you win, you're 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html|still a rat.


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