[oclug] I am angry. Spam went to far today. Want to fight back.

[James Lockie]

William Case wrote:
> Jacques, of course, your right.
>
> I have never reacted before.  This morning I was checking my junk.
> Found two or three valid messages from mailing lists I belong to.
>
> To find them, I had to read all the rest of the ugly headlines and blew
> my stack.
>   
I suspect I receive legit mail that is filtered so I never see it.
I think about that occasionally but if someone really needs to reach me, 
there are other ways.

>
>   
>> So spamming will continue. I still believe that ISPs are in the best
>> position to impact spam by ensuring email headers leaving their
>> network do not contain a spoofed header.  Those that do would have to
>> be followed up with the customer (either he's a spammer, or a victim
>> of a hacker using their machine to spam).
>>
>> Jacques B
>>     
>
> It was just a rant because I needed it.
>
>