[CAUT] spam

[Barbara Richmond]

Jim,

I use  missed-spam at comcast.net  but, I don't know if it's just for folks 
with Comcast accounts.

I send in every bit, don't get repeats (like I did with another carrier) and 
don't believe I even get one a day.

Does BYU have anything set up?  Can you contact the folks in charge of the 
computer system there?  I used to talk with the computer guys at IWU when I 
was there--but that was a small school....

Barbara Richmond, RPT
near Peoria, Illinois


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Busby" <jim_busby at byu.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] spam


> Hi Ron,
>
> For years I have reported spam (especially scams) to spam.gov, as you have 
> explained below, but have never seen any results from our government. Is 
> there another address that I could use? And, how does one know if any 
> action was taken, or if it is just a waste of time? Most don't have the 
> abuse thing attached.
>
> I'd gladly send the idiots away if I could. I get 5 or so a day.
>
> Thanks.
> Jim Busby BYU
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron 
> Overs
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:24 PM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] spam
>
> Hello all,
>
> Unsolicited junk is the curse of the medium. I routinely report one
> spammer/scammer per day to either our Australian authority which
> deals with it, or the server of origin if they have an abuse@****
> address.
>
> For example, Gmail seems to be rotten with scammer accounts. You can
> open the offending email, click the "blah, blah blah" button to
> include the entire headers so that the server can identify the
> scammer, then forward it to abuse at gmail.com.
>
> They'll usually close the account.
>
> If we all did one per day the scoundrels might well be hunted from the 
> web.
>
> Ron O.
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