Re: Yahoo responds in the positive

nailshooter41@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Jun 19, 3:53 pm, "Pop`" <nod...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm happy to say the last three LARTs out of five I've sent to
Yahoo about group spam here have resulted in action; guess
they're paying attention after all. The other two of course
just >got the boilerplate "not my job" responses.

Point is, it DOES work to complain about spams on the groups!


Thanks for taking the time to do something about it. It is much
easier to bitch than to work for solution, and I appreciate the fact
that you took the time and made the effort to help keep this place a
little cleaner.

Would you mind telling us how you did it, what you had to provide, and
to whom you reported this in order to get results?

Robert

If you go back to my original post, you'll see what I sent to them under
their "Original Message Follows:" heading. In that case the complaint went
to the address in the Header line:
--------------
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@xxxxxxxxxx
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:11:20 +0000 (UTC)
-------------

That line is very hard to forge and 99.9% always correct in posts. They cut
it, but I also pointed out the non-google spamsite in the post, and the fact
that it appeared to be using a Google address for a drop box IIRC.

I see you're using OE6, so to get a look at that same data, simply put your
cursor in the message and press CTRL-F3. You'll see the headers from my
post, which are unforged of course, with the exception of my e-mail address.

In this case the spammer apparently didn't do much forging but in most
cases there will be forgeries, especially in the From line and all the
Header lines after the second Received line. Most of the Google spams and
even a lot of the shaw.ca spams are like this. Never, ever trust the From
or Return Path lines: They are very easy to forge and almost always are
forged.

HTH
Pop`



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