Fighting Spam

Email does not have to contain a valid return address so when anoying people send you stupid emails you canot always reply, emails do however identify the computer the message was sent from, using this you can track down the spammer's ISP, complain and get them kicked out.

When you recieve unsolicted email the following steps will get the offending persons kicked out of their ISP:

• Look at the full header of the email, the Received: line shows where the email originated: e.g. Received: from [208.47.186.198] by victommail.com (9.2) with ESMTP id MVictomMailFISH2E5E7006AD829F3CAD12FBAC612EF0; Fri Apr 28 07:000, the IP address is 208.47.186.198
• In a MS-DOS Prompt window of MS-Windows, or a shell session in Unix, type: ping -a ipaddress, e.g: ping -a 208.47.186.198
• This will tell you the domain name of the IP Address where the email came from, e.g. pinging cust198.tnt1.dial.tor2.uxnet.cx [209.47.186.198] with 32 bytes of data, the domain name is cust198.tnt1.dial.tor2.uxnet.cx.
• In a web browser add www to the front of the last parts of the domain name to try to get the web server of the company that the spammers are using, e.g: try www.tor2.uxnet.cx or www.uxnet.cx. If either of these works click a lunk called contacts or support.
• Somewhere there will be an email address for unsolicted email or spam complaints, e.g: [email protected]
• Forward the offending email this email address with a short complaint.