On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:49:56 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

There seems to be some interest here in dealing with usenet and email
SPAMmers.

For email, I block "incomings" that have the usual offending subject
matters in their headers ('Inet user' is a good one to block at the
moment), and I also block a number of ISPs, including all mail from:

juno.com
netmail.com
puremail.com
freemail.com
bigfoot.com
toursydney.com.au

These ISPs got on my blocked list because of the frequency of SPAM
coming from their direction.


I also block individual emailer spammers, such as:



If I get more than a half-dozen SPAMs from rocketmail.net, it, too, will
go on the blocked ISP list.

If you've got one of the newer cell phones that allow web browsing and
usenet posting, you have to be sure to munge your email address, else
your cell phone email account will be deluged with SPAM. I have one of
those phones, but I don't use the internet features at all. But I've
read a lot about users whose phone email accounts get more SPAM than
their home/office email accounts.

There's a move afoot to publish a directory of cell phone numbers.
Hopefully, we'll be able to keep whatever cell phone numbers we want
away from such a directory and from directory service.

*This* aspect of technological wizardry is not an advance.

If they ever publish a cell phone directory and charges continue to be
accrued by the receiving party, I predict a return to the concept and
use of debtor's prison.