Is there any recourse..?

[Anonymous]

I get a ton of spam from people harvesting my email address from ADSK NG's -
even though I modify them against this sort of thing.

Is there any place to/any point in reporting companies who have harvested
addresses for SPAM purposes?

[Anonymous]

I've gotten out IT dept. to trust me, for the most part. I even have Admin
rights on any computer I log on to. But now they've instituted a new policy
where you can't download or receive an email attachment that have extensions
like; .exe, .dll, .zip or .dbx to mane a few. In other words. Any file I
might find useful.

What you gain on the straight-a-ways you lose on the round-abouts.

Allen

"Ted L" wrote in message
news:FB9054CFB82FB9D0F0CAC521886B4FAB@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Allen,
>
> You might be on to something - our OLD website had contacts for all staff,
> now it's just the principals .
>
> As for firewalls, I'm told its "not my concern" - but I'm in a branch
office
> with nothing but the cable modem router acting as a firewall... since it's
> not my concern... I don't bother running ZoneAlarm (like I do at home).
> I've had my hand slapped enough times for meddling in the IT stuff, so I
> "punted" long ago
>
> Thx
>
>

[Anonymous]

One approach I have heard of to test where the spam is getting harvested
goes like this. If you have your own domain, you can often set up an e:mail
address where all e:mail to a nonexistent e:mail account on the domain goes
to one real account. Thus, I could have bogus e:mails of
AutodeskNG@mydomain.com for here, MicrosoftNG@mydomain.com for MS
newsgroups, etc. Then I could route all of them thru a real account called
newsgroups@mydomain.com, and sort them to an NG folder. Then you just look
at the spam that arrives, and see which bogus e:mail account it went thru.
Haven't tried it yet myself, but the spam level is getting large enough that
I might. Also, my home account, which is thru a hosting company, doesn't get
much spam, while my work account, thru Exchange Server, get a ton. My guess
is my hosting service at home is blocking a lot of stuff, while Exchange
requires a costly add-on to block anything.

Best,
Gordon

[Anonymous]

Guess I should type from my own PC, to avoid confusion in a long
conversation!!

[Anonymous]

That's pretty much what I do, to the letter - and what you describe for
home/work is a mirror image of my situation. Ultimately, there is no
recourse, but a number of ways to deflect the spam at least.

[Anonymous]

It actually is not that costly at all (for a company) -
http://www.gfi.com/mes/. We use it for 25 mailboxes - no spam at all to the
user, with heavy enough communications, Internet search and purchasing,
newsgroup activity. I have it set up to deliver everything suspicious into
one mailbox - we have 0% of spam getting through to the user. It takes about
30 seconds to highlight the garbage and hit "Delete" button. If you set it
up to delete suspicious items - it will send out a notification that the
E-mail delivery failed. This (hopefully) will lead to the exclusion of the
address from the valid addresses to be sold later.

--
Regards,

Yury Shafir

<
requires a costly add-on to block anything.>>
>
> Best,
> Gordon
>
>

[cprettyman]

You're going to need a lot of Guidos to maintain a beating rate adequate to the number of assignemtns you'd be giving them.

[Anonymous]

I use a NOSPAM addition to my email and that seems to work well.

My website was getting harvested until I used a piece of java script to
mangle the mailto code (I found it via hotscripts.com and can email it to
whomever might be interested).

We're trying out iHateSpam for our laptop users and it is working quite well
(both Outlook and Outlook Express versions). The only real problem we've
run across is when you have other addins running with Outlook - specifically
Franklin Covery's Plan Plus and that little tool Outlock.exe. iHateSpam
doesn't play well with others. But we like it because it is an integrated
solution, not a spam DMZ out in front of the email client. I personally find
great satisfaction in the 'Bounce' feature.

We are researching solutions for our Exchange server, but haven't settled on
anything yet.

Along with the iHateSpam, we are providing a little education. We have
instituted a policy (for what it's worth...) that your work email is NOT
your personal email. And we outline what is and is not acceptable use for
that address. Also, I send out tips and articles about things like 'What is
Spam', 'Where does it come from', 'How they find you', etc.

The bottom line is that if no one ever responded to Spam, it would go away.
It isn't going away, so SOMEONE is responding to it! And if I find out who
that someone is - I'm going to need to hire Guido to take a trip to their
house...


"Yury Shafir" wrote in message
news:1E50A233369F888EB44FF9870A166A55@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> It actually is not that costly at all (for a company) -
> http://www.gfi.com/mes/. We use it for 25 mailboxes - no spam at all to
the
> user, with heavy enough communications, Internet search and purchasing,
> newsgroup activity. I have it set up to deliver everything suspicious into
> one mailbox - we have 0% of spam getting through to the user. It takes
about
> 30 seconds to highlight the garbage and hit "Delete" button. If you set it
> up to delete suspicious items - it will send out a notification that the
> E-mail delivery failed. This (hopefully) will lead to the exclusion of the
> address from the valid addresses to be sold later.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Yury Shafir
>
> <
> requires a costly add-on to block anything.>>
> >
> > Best,
> > Gordon
> >
> >
>
>

[Anonymous]

Would you be willing to share your documents created for 'where it comes
from' and 'how they find you'? I would be very interested in this myself as
well as to pass on.

-Kevin.

[Anonymous]

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/13906.html
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/10748.html
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/13780.html

To name three options... .

--
Dean Saadallah
Add-on products for LT
http://www.pendean.com/lt
--

[Anonymous]

Or you could line them all up at one time a do one really big "Stoog Slap".

CMF

c.prettyman wrote:
> You're going to need a lot of Guidos to maintain a beating rate adequate
> to the number of assignemtns you'd be giving them.