Spam from posting on this forum

[Rich Hennosy]

I posted a question to the microsoft powerpoint forum and now I am getting
30-50 spam messages each day. How can I stop this? I am using Microsoft
Entourage on Mac OSX. I have set up some rules to try to catch them, but
they get through anyway. The rules are ignored. Is there anyway to contact
Microsoft to have them delete my post with my email address?

(e-mail address removed)

Rich

 

[Ringwood]

I posted a question to the microsoft powerpoint forum and now I am getting
30-50 spam messages each day. How can I stop this? I am using Microsoft
Entourage on Mac OSX. I have set up some rules to try to catch them, but
they get through anyway. The rules are ignored. Is there anyway to contact
Microsoft to have them delete my post with my email address?

(e-mail address removed)

Rich

Never post your real email address to a news group, but it's probably too
late for that.

You can minimise it either by installing anti-spam software, or by moveing
to an ISP that uses spam filtering.
You can stop it by changing your email address, but that can be a pain in
the....

Once you're email address is on the spam lists, it won't stop!

 

[James Collins]

-----Original Message-----
I posted a question to the microsoft powerpoint forum and now I am getting
30-50 spam messages each day. How can I stop this? I am using Microsoft
Entourage on Mac OSX. I have set up some rules to try to catch them, but
they get through anyway. The rules are ignored. Is there anyway to contact
Microsoft to have them delete my post with my email address?

(e-mail address removed)

Rich

.

Unfortunately, you are pretty much screwed. A newsgroup
posting can't be deleted by Microsoft since its doesn't
actually reside on a Microsoft server but rather on many
different places on the internet. The spam you are
getting is from users who are infected with one of many
types of virus. About the only thing you can do to combat
it is to find the source ip address in the header. Look
it up on a whois server. (whois.arin.net) And send a
abuse report to the network that it originated from. Most
of the time you will find somewhere in the whois report an
(e-mail address removed), foward the SPAM with the full headers
on to them and usually they'll take care of it.

I had this same thing happen to me once where I was
getting about 50 or so a day, I now get about one or 2 a
week. Also in the future when posting your email address
on these or any newsgroup put an filler in your email
address so that it won't be picked up as a valid email
address by a address sniffer.

Example: (e-mail address removed) -> rhennosy@(NOSPAM)
bigredrooster.com

Hope this helps.

JC

 

[Martin]

Unfortunately, you are pretty much screwed. A newsgroup
posting can't be deleted by Microsoft since its doesn't
actually reside on a Microsoft server but rather on many
different places on the internet. The spam you are
getting is from users who are infected with one of many
types of virus. About the only thing you can do to combat
it is to find the source ip address in the header. Look
it up on a whois server. (whois.arin.net) And send a
abuse report to the network that it originated from. Most
of the time you will find somewhere in the whois report an
(e-mail address removed), foward the SPAM with the full headers
on to them and usually they'll take care of it.

I had this same thing happen to me once where I was
getting about 50 or so a day, I now get about one or 2 a
week. Also in the future when posting your email address
on these or any newsgroup put an filler in your email
address so that it won't be picked up as a valid email
address by a address sniffer.

Example: (e-mail address removed) -> rhennosy@(NOSPAM)
bigredrooster.com

Hope this helps.

JC

Be careful about sending abuse reports, there are some ISP's that make money
from spam and smammers, sending an abuse report can confirm your address is
genuine. Many ISP's will just reply with a bulk "it wasn't us, honest!"
reply, because they don't have the time or man-power to investigate every
incident. Only reputable ISP's like Yahoo, MSN, BT etc actually investigate
spam reports.

An before anyone starts bitching about what I just said, it comes from many
years of personal experience!

 

[Bob Burns]

I posted a question to the microsoft powerpoint forum and now I am
getting 30-50 spam messages each day. How can I stop this? I am using
Microsoft Entourage on Mac OSX. I have set up some rules to try to
catch them, but they get through anyway. The rules are ignored. Is
there anyway to contact Microsoft to have them delete my post with my
email address?

(e-mail address removed)

Rich

It's too late! you're out there! Try mailwasher (do a Google search) to
get rid of a lot of it from the server before you download it. It's
freeware.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Does MailWasher have a Mac version?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Bob Burns asked:

| Rich Hennosy wrote:
|| I posted a question to the microsoft powerpoint forum and now I am
|| getting 30-50 spam messages each day. How can I stop this? I am using
|| Microsoft Entourage on Mac OSX. I have set up some rules to try to
|| catch them, but they get through anyway. The rules are ignored. Is
|| there anyway to contact Microsoft to have them delete my post with my
|| email address?
||
|| (e-mail address removed)
||
|| Rich
|
| It's too late! you're out there! Try mailwasher (do a Google
| search) to get rid of a lot of it from the server before you download
| it. It's freeware.

 

[James Collins]

-----Original Message-----



Be careful about sending abuse reports, there are some ISP's that make money
from spam and smammers, sending an abuse report can confirm your address is
genuine. Many ISP's will just reply with a bulk "it wasn't us, honest!"
reply, because they don't have the time or man-power to investigate every
incident. Only reputable ISP's like Yahoo, MSN, BT etc actually investigate
spam reports.

An before anyone starts bitching about what I just said, it comes from many
years of personal experience!


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True that. However if you just keep a close eye and good
memory on multiple SPAM coming from the same place over a
period of time, you can go up even higher than the ISP to
complain. I sent a report straight to IANA about a
certain ISP over a period of 5 months, and got a response
back that this ISP was under investigation. One week
later I got a response back saying that the network had
been denied its priviledges. I even caught a news article
about it on Yahoo! Nothing makes me happier than helpin
to bring down a SPAMMER but bringing down a ISP that
allows SPAM is like takin down the drug dealer down the
block