Junk e-mail

Each time I post a message in a newsgroup, I am automatically giving my e-mail address to thousand of those newgroup-browser programs that collect e-mail addresses and then send annoying advertising. Most of the time, if you reply to the message asking them to be removed, your mail bounces back with a message stating that 'address could not be resolved'.

This got a little frustrating after a while when I kept getting more and more of this virtual crap. So I began my crusade. Each message that is sent to me, usually has one piece of correct information (a respond address to place your order, a web site). I look for those, then perform a WHOIS at the Internic server. For those that don't know, Internic is a company that deals with keeping track and assigning the names to the correct IP number. By queering their database, it is possible to see who owns the respective site, with their E-MAIL address. I simply forward the message to that address.

I would love to mail-bomb these individuals, but first of all, I would be clogging the wires as well with tons of useless e-mails, and many of this computers are made to handle lots of incoming e-mail. But it still gets on my nerves. There is no way of stopping this abuse, you can't put a "no flyer" sign on your mailbox. For now, all you can do is try to get removed from mailing lists via the URLs written below, or set up filters that automatically forward the mail back. To survive on Usenet, divide your e-mail address in two by placing a space between your name and your domain name (ie. leandro @ifront.com). Computer programs are not that smart.. yet.

Guide to Spam, Abuse and Internet Advertising
http://com.primenet.com/spamking

Internet Spam Control Center
http://drsvc.com/nospam/ns2.shtml

Stop Junk Email
http://www.mcs.net/~jcr/junkemail.html

Blacklist of Internet Advertisers:
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de

Berkley Remailer List
http://www.cs.berkley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html

Fight Spam on the Internet
http://www.vix.com/spam