Now HERE is a posting to whine about. (Notice how I thoughtfully removed the non-Futurama newsgroups from my reply.)
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 06:47:08 -0500, "Rick Carlson" wrote:
Mr. Spamsucks, (If that's really your name . . .)
You can do a WHOIS check on the websight and then forward the post to the administrative contact. If they are responsible folks, then they will have a TOS which prohibits spam and the sight will be promptly closed.
I don't know about Outlook Express, but with Agent, you can choose to "view all headers". With the header information, you can find the server the post originated at, and compare it to the abuse reporting address. If the original spammer didn't hack the header, send a copy to the abuse at address. If the address seems faked, you can try abuse @ whatever company it was posted to first. Make certain to include all the headers and the path when you send it. this will allow them to trace the message to it's source.
If you don't "no spam" your return address, you will generally get an auto reply that your e-mail was received. The major ISPs shut down accounts by the hundreds for this sort of thing. The more people who jump on spammers and the faster they get shut down, the better Usenet will be for the rest of us.
On this particular post note the number in the subject line is there to bypass spam filters. Since the better spam filters have to look inside the content of posts to detect spam, they put the randomized gibberish at the bottom. So much for the innocent "I didn't know it was wrong to post this here" argument.
To get the e-mail address harvester bots, you can do this:
[email] [email] [email]
--Larry