Usual target, but this time … it’s just got personal.
Some effluent producing spammer sent out a batch of spam last night using my email domain as the From header. Guess how my in-box looked this morning. :mad:
So, dear spammer, I know that you are of course morally bankrupt and impervious to the opinions of decent folk, and you don’t ever pause to think of the havoc you leave for others to clear up in the wake of your scramble for filthy lucre. But rest assured that one day, when you are gone and your bones are rotting in their grave, others shall think of you. And their summation of your wretched time on Earth will be that you were selfish scum, a waste of biology and the whole of creation looked a little brighter with your leaving. I hope you find this a happy thought and gives your pitiful life some meaning.
And while we’re about it; the same goes for mindless anti-spam firewalls and the cretins who write and configure them. Guess what guys; you are not the solution, you are part of the problem! Someone needs to knock your dullards’ heads together. What is the point of your software sending a smug email back to the supposed sender of spam, telling them they have been blocked? When was the last time a spammer used their own email address on spam??? Like, never in the last 10 years!! So all you idiots are doing is spamming another innocent party in return! :smack:
But it was well within the spirit of your username.
I feel for you on the spam issue. I’m not a violent person, but there are times when i wish i could have some time alone with these guys and a baseball bat.
I’ve never had any spam come from my email domain (that I know of), but I have had my access to AOL customers blocked because someone was spamming from the ISP I use. Or is that what you meant? AOL blocks everything coming from that server until the server’s customers complain and they search out the offender. Effective, I suppose, but it pisses me off when I get a rebounded emal telling me I can’t communicate with my brother until some asshole in my region stops spamming AOL customers. :mad: I don’t have a choice of ISPs where I live. There is only one that is not a long distance dial-up. Rural living sucks.
AOL to that, brother. I’m glad the fucking scum advertising a herbal AIDS cure seem to have been shut down, but apart from that it’s been business as usual. Where do these fucktards learn their advertising strategy?
I’d just love it if a few spammers would read this list of hints:
[ul]
[li]I am not more likely to buy from you if you ask me twenty or thirty times a day. This is not TV, you moron - I’m not going to miss one because I’m not online when you send it.[/li][li]I am not going to buy your product unless I want it, so don’t fucking try guilting me into it by telling me you’ll sell me pain meds for all my suffering relatives.[/li][li]You people aren’t selling anything unusual. If I wanted to buy these things, I would simply go looking for them. You dont need to waste my time and yours pursuing an advertising strategy that is purposefully designed to piss me off and make me distrust you.[/li][li]And I don’t care how bad my country is - I still don’t want to live in the USA because it would mean sharing a continent with you assholes. Fuck off.[/li][/ul]
Incidentally, can everyone please ask their ISP to block all traffic from rdsnet.ro - they’re hosting phishers and despite having been told about it several times they refuse to do anything about it. Crime should not pay.
Futile Gesture, I have the exact same problem.
Nowadays, it seems if you don’t make your email completely unique and gibberish, someone will use it for their undeliverable spam.
I like this site: www.arin.net
I use that nifty little header in the returned junk mail (showing my email address as return recipient :mad: ) to find the IP address it supposedly came from. Then I can report them to abuse@whoeveritis.com and dump it in their lap. Then I use my email function to go ahead and “report junk mail” even if it’s from someone’s anti-spam program ‘kicking it back’…I look at it this way; I surely didn’t request that either and it draws even more attention to the spammers.
The problem has gotten a whoooole lot better since I started. I used to have 20-50 undeliverable messages in my inbox…now I get 1-3 a day.
I once administered a small offices network, and the network included a mail host/cacheing web proxy hooked up to T1 from Genuity. Someone in the same class C as my machines turned out to be a spammer, and one of those utterly fucking retarded blacklists decided to blacklist everying in that address space, including my itty bitty subnet, which had done absolutely nothing wrong. Assholes.
