[Coco] Reporting SPAM

[George's Coco Address]

 Last month, I got a few spams to the email addy I use "Only On This Mail 
List".
 Later, I was looking for links to one of my websites and discovered that my 
email is posted in the five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/ site hundreds of 
times.  However, the "@" was replaced with " at " in those posts, so this 
tells me the spam was a feeble attempt by an individual trying to startup a 
spam program.
 Historically, once my addy was discovered, the spam expanded 
exponentionally until I had to create a new email addy and drop the old one. 
This time, I only received a few spams on this addy and since, they have 
stopped. Maybe someone found this spammer and shot him/her.
 I'm fortunate insofar as I have several websites with unlimited email 
address capabilities on each. So it's easy to create a new one. Almost all 
are aliases to forward to my REAL POP account. I NEVER use the REAL addy to 
send emails. Only a select individuals know that addy and it's been safe for 
about two years.... so far.
 If I buy from(for example) BUY.COM, I create an alias account called.. 
buy at mywebsite.com and if I have to write to them, I create a POP account to 
write from. This way, I know exactly where the spam is coming from. It's 
really easy to delete the account and stop the spam.

 Spam will happen. It won't stop. Gene Heskett is correct, just delete it.

 One of my websites gets spammed to <made-up names> over twelve thousand 
times a day. I'm glad I'm not one of those names. <grin>

 It's inevitable that an email addy will get compromised. Sneaky folks have 
found ways to get your email addy from your family and friend's infected 
computers. Once it happens, we have to get a new addy. I wish I could do the 
same at my address at my house!

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Jones" <ojones at elp.rr.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:23 PM
Subject: [Coco] Reporting SPAM


> My email address finally got discovered by the spamers.
> Do any of you folks know of a way to create a script to automatically 
> forward spam message headers to a specific email address? I use 
> Thunderbird for my email program but I am willing to switch programs if 
> there is something better. Thunderbird catches just about all spams sent 
> to my inbox but I would like to be more pro-active in reporting this trash 
> to my ISP and spam at uce.gov. It gets old doing the reporting manually.
>
> Alan
>
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