How do I stop spamming?
Gary Litz
Mike Dowling
>How do i stop spammers from spaming into my e-mail site?
The simple answer is that you cannot stop them, just as you cannot stop
crime. There are things that you can do, though.
1. Prevention Look at the recent posting to this news group with the
Subject: line FAQ: Spammer's Harvesting Techniques It contains info on
how spammers get your email address, and therefore information on how to
stop them in future. Briefly, there are three main methods, harvesting
usenet articles like this and your article, chat rooms, and badly
organised web sites. Many people munge their email address to stop
spammers from obtaining their address from usenet, although this is
frowned upon in some circles. (I dislike munging intensely.) My
.signature below tell you how I cope.
2. Bounce Spam
There are databases around (see http://maps.vix.com/rbl/,
http://www.orbs.org/, http://www.shub-inter.net/,
http://www.imrss.org/error.html, http://relays.radparker.com/, and
http://maps.vix.com/dul/) that list known spamming domains,. open
relays, and dialup accounts. If you run your own mail transfer agent,
use these databases to bounce email from these sources. If not, use
mail filtering programs like procmail to consign this rubbish to
/dev/null.
3. Complain
When you are spammed, learn to read the headers so you can identify the
source. Use the whois information to discover the ISP of the miscreant,
and complain.
4. Update those Databases
If you receive spam, help keep those databases up to date for us all by
reporting the miscreant.
Cheers,
Mike Dowling
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My email address mi...@moocow.math.tu-bs.de above is a valid email address.
It is, in fact, a sendmail alias; the digit 'N' is incremented regularly.
Spammed aliases will be deleted. Currently, mike[5,7-9,10,12,13,16-18]
have been deleted. If email to mikeN bounces, try mikeN+1.