[Sca-cooks] stopping spam

[Stefan li Rous]

Michelle Gilyeat said:
> That's incorrect.   My @Home address still works, and is purported to
> work until the 28th.  I downloaded a crapload of spam from it this
> evening.

Recently there have been two articles in my newspaper on SPAM. (Not the
canned meat product, the unwanted, wasteful commercial email).

"To J. Howard Beales, director of the Consumer Protection Bureau at
the Federal Trade Commission, consumer suits just "promote a bounty-
hunting mentality" that doesn't address real abuse. The FTC
encourages people to forward suspected fraudulent or deceptive
spams to uce at ftc.gov"

Both articles gave this address.

Well, I see nothing wrong with a bounty-hunting mentality myself.
If someone can get some money while making it so expensive for the
spammers that they can't bombard my mailbox, usually with forged
headers, more power to them.

I encourage all US net users to mail the worst of the spam they
recieve to this address. Again it is: uce at ftc.gov

Maybe if they get enough of it, they may decide that maybe just
maybe the people are upset enough that it offsets the money from
the lobbyists and they will create some laws to stop this.

Right now they probably figure that spam is not a problem
and that most people are happy to get it or at least are
not upset enough to do anything about it, other than hit
the 'delete' key.

I have been sending a goodly amount of the spam I recieve, at
work and at home, to this address for the past week. I don't
know if they are really doing anything with it, but it isn't
bouncing.

Please remember to turn on the full headers display before
forwarding the spam. When I forward or reply (I'm using Netscape)
it strips off the headers. So I do a select all on the message,
copy it and then paste it into the new message and then send
that.

Please feel free to send this information to any friends you
think might be interested in this.

Stefan