Re: 1279-Work at home as an Internet research assistant!

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:43:34 GMT, Genome <ilike_spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
muttered something like:

> Even so, the miffed or the miffee (?) gets a hint that something is wrong
> and should take appropriate action.

What do you mean, "something is wrong?" We're talking about a third party
who had nothing to do with the spam, who is now getting abuse simply
because someone ELSE forged their address. They did not do anything
wrong.

> You want that I should go to the affiliate website and file a spam report
> with them???????

I want you should stop helping the spammers by abusing the from: address,
which is at best a throwaway account and at worst is a real person's
forged address. You can clearly read IP addresses; report it to the NNTP
posting host, report the web site to its ISP, and post the whole mess to
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings so there's a record of ongoing abuse.
Even if it's only a throwaway account, you're adding to the load of
invalid mail that ISP will have to process.

Signing up a forged address to receive thousands of spam is abuse on a par
with spamming, with the same attitude of "I don't care what kind of damage
I'm causing other people."

-Bertha
--
Speaker-to-Animals was killing with his hands, his good hand a claw for
ripping, his bandaged one a weighted club. Somehow he could dodge a sword
point while reaching for the man behind it. He was surrounded, but the
natives would not press him. He was alien orange death, eight feet tall,
with pointed teeth. _Ringworld_, Larry Niven
.

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