# aeola.us spam and how to kill it off **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 4, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453 "2017-09-04T04:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/41 "2017-12-03T06:15:01Z")
> [@AKM510](#): > > If I hadn’t had this dumb earthlink email address for 25 years I’d switch… Just 20 for me, but yeah, it’s mine and every rare once in awhile someone finds something I wrote or posted way back when and writes to me about it. Or someone who hasn’t corresponded in eons decides to reach out. ---
**Author:** ![Pontisteve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Pontisteve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pontisteve)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/42 "2017-12-03T21:32:54Z")
It is intolerable. I cant take it any more, and who knows how many emails my business doesn’t get because my server mailbox is too full of this garbage. Plus I’m stupid enough to be paying them annually for this! I’m going to transition out of EarthLink and into Gmail I guess. It sounds like they have the best spam filtering going. ---
**Author:** ![PVjimmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@PVjimmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PVjimmy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/43 "2017-12-28T21:12:09Z")
I have paid for earthlink since 2004, I just cancelled. Gmail and outlook. com allow me to use wildcards. \*[aeola.us](http://aeola.us) now goes straight to the trash and never shows up in either suspected spam or the inbox. I simply got fed up with earthlink’s lack of response. One thing that I never have understood about spam, I know of absolutely no one whom has ever bought a single thing from a spammer. How could there be any money in it? I use gmail, my wife is using [outlook.com](http://outlook.com). They are free and they are better than Earthlink. ---
**Author:** ![Pontisteve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Pontisteve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pontisteve)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/44 "2017-12-29T06:26:43Z")
Good for you! I need to do the same. EarthLink is near worthless. I did have success blocking the entire .us domain name. Here’s another spamming scumbag you should add to your blocked senders list: [proffbuilder.com](http://proffbuilder.com) ---
**Author:** ![JimP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@JimP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimP)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/45 "2018-01-01T04:18:54Z")
Earthlink’s blocked spam summaries for my account are about evenly divided between [proffbuilder.com](http://proffbuilder.com) spam and the \*[aolea.us](http://aolea.us) spam. I’m getting 50 to 100 per day since adding the block of the .us domain. There is something wrong at Neustar, I think. I don’t believe this use of the .us domain can happen without some systemic failure. ---
**Author:** ![drwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/46 "2018-02-06T00:33:45Z")
Your all not putting in the correct terms in blocked sender list. I knocked my spam down to a few from over 150 a day. Try these [ripe.net](http://ripe.net) , [whois.ripe.net](http://whois.ripe.net) , [www.ripe.net](http://www.ripe.net) , @aeola.us , @seeurbox.com , @mdl-afraid.atl.sa.earthlink.net , [digitalocean.com](http://digitalocean.com) , www.cert.br Now I’ll tell you all how I did it. Click on the spam email. Then click more actions Then click on view headers. Now you will see a bunch garbage writing, scroll down until you get to the last or second to last received from. The last received one may contain a local IP address and not a real word IP address. Look at the last IP address and copy it, then go to a whois address I use [http://whois.domaintools.com](http://whois.domaintools.com) and paste the numbers look through the text to find the real address it was sent from, then add that address to your blocked sender list. Here’s an example I used my straight dope email, IP address is 10.24.36.34 and it goes to @iana.org The idiots at earthlink support should have been able to tell you this. I’ve had my earthlink account since the 90’s and up until recently the simple way of adding the blocked sender to the list worked, and now I had to be creative just like the spammers are doing ---
**Author:** ![drwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/48 "2018-02-06T00:37:13Z")
running coach it is not spam, I’m trying to help these people who are spammed by earthlink mail ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/49 "2018-02-06T03:20:42Z")
**Moderator Note** Doesn’t seem like spam to me. Welcome to the SDMB, **drwolf**. We’d rather have the occasional false positive than have spam (or anything else) under-reported, so don’t take offense. We hope you enjoy your time here. ---
**Author:** ![MrBark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MrBark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBark)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/50 "2018-02-12T22:29:43Z")
drwolf, Thank you for that solution. It definitely serves to get to the originating address. I have been looking at the headers and adding the “from:” address to the “Blocked Senders List” on Earthlink Webmail. That works except in the case of this @\*[aolea.us](http://aolea.us) address where you can’t use wildcards to substitute for their random characters. I have also found that when you are looking at the headers you can just put the numbered ip address directly into the “Blocked Senders List”. Such as “139.59.173.159”. That ip address corresponds to one of the many \*[aolea.us](http://aolea.us) addresses. It saves a step of going to “[Whois.com](http://Whois.com)” and still gets to the originator of the message. ---
**Author:** ![drwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453/51 "2018-02-13T00:05:17Z")
MrBark, Your welcome, just sharing what I have learned. Since last week I have been using mail washer free and spamcop and I have been reporting them to the ISP and to the Federal Trade commission, yet no let up, today I had 53 from [aolea.us](http://aolea.us). You can also try this one, I just added it to my blocked sender list @+[aolea.us](http://aolea.us) . we’ll see if it works [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeola-us-spam-and-how-to-kill-it-off/795453.md?page=2)