Date: 1/20/98 4:05:45 PM From: Dave Weir Subject: [NTSEC] Replying to Spam To: ("""'ntsecurity@iss.net'"" "@LOCAL) TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email "unsubscribe ntsecurity" to majordomo@iss.net Contact ntsecurity-owner@iss.net for help with any problems! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is an excellent article in Internet Magazine about how to read headers. Follow the link. http://www.zdnet.com/zdimag/helpdesk/98/01/no.spam/ This will help. >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:39:52 -0000 >From: "Martin Johnson" >Subject: RE: [NTSEC] Replying to Spam. > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email "unsubscribe ntsecurity" to majordomo@iss.net >Contact ntsecurity-owner@iss.net for help with any problems! >- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Don't bother replying to spam. You usually can't, because the mail >headers are usually forged. Just delete it. That's all you can do. > >My ISP (on my home account) does some spam filtering, but it's more >complex than you might think, and there's always a danger of the rules >firing accidentally and deleting legitimate mail. Indeed, that's the >biggest annoyance of spam: that if it gets too large in volume, people >will stop reading emails. > >- - martin. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-ntsecurity@iss.net [mailto:owner-ntsecurity@iss.net]On >> Behalf Of LeRoi Keiller >> Sent: 18 January 1998 21:14 >> To: 'ntsecurity@iss.net' >> Subject: [NTSEC] Replying to Spam. >> >> >> >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email "unsubscribe ntsecurity" to majordomo@iss.net >> Contact ntsecurity-owner@iss.net for help with any problems! >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >- ------- >> >> Hi >> >> Can anyone tell me how to reply to Spam when the reply address comes >up >> as unknown? This happens a lot. Perhaps I'm missing something >really >> simple here. Reply to me direct if you like. >> >> LeRoi >> >> > >