I see you have a popular project on Sourceforge. I have a similar dis-taste for SPAM (don't we all), so I have made a considerable investment by writing a SPAM complaint program. I was wondering if you know someone, say Mark, that is interested in helping me integrate with Outlook. I'm a big Linux user but I'm willing to use the tools need to build and maintain the add-on so I can reach more users and get more spammers and their drones shut-down. Please have a look, the web site is http://spamcomplaint.net ... thanks, Jimmy
James Calfee wrote:
I see you have a popular project on Sourceforge. I have a similar dis-taste for SPAM (don't we all), so I have made a considerable investment by writing a SPAM complaint program.
I was wondering if you know someone, say Mark, that is interested in helping me integrate with Outlook. I'm a big Linux user but I'm willing to use the tools need to build and maintain the add-on so I can reach more users and get more spammers and their drones shut-down.
Please have a look, the web site is http://spamcomplaint.net ...
thanks, Jimmy
Soooo....your tool basically makes the spam problem worse. Can I complain about your tool? -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
On Sat, June 20, 2009 15:37, Thomas Hruska wrote:
James Calfee wrote:
I see you have a popular project on Sourceforge. I have a similar dis-taste for SPAM (don't we all), so I have made a considerable investment by writing a SPAM complaint program.
I was wondering if you know someone, say Mark, that is interested in helping me integrate with Outlook. I'm a big Linux user but I'm willing to use the tools need to build and maintain the add-on so I can reach more users and get more spammers and their drones shut-down.
Please have a look, the web site is http://spamcomplaint.net ...
thanks, Jimmy
Soooo....your tool basically makes the spam problem worse. Can I complain about your tool?
Agreed, most spam is forged anyway, including forged mail headers. Once an email has left the MTA phase, everything has become untrustworthy. The mail client is not the place where you can identify the spammer. If I ever get backscatter spam from spamcomplaint, it won't take me long to block it on my mailserver. -- Amedee
[James Calfee]
I see you have a popular project on Sourceforge. I have a similar dis-taste for SPAM (don't we all), so I have made a considerable investment by writing a SPAM complaint program.
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Please have a look, the web site is http://spamcomplaint.net ...
[Thomas Hruska]
Soooo....your tool basically makes the spam problem worse. Can I complain about your tool?
[Amedee Van Gasse]
Agreed, most spam is forged anyway, including forged mail headers. Once an email has left the MTA phase, everything has become untrustworthy. The mail client is not the place where you can identify the spammer.
If I ever get backscatter spam from spamcomplaint, it won't take me long to block it on my mailserver.
While I haven't used the program in question, and its FAQ left details unclear to me, it appears to send complaints to various "abuse" addresses associated with the claimed IP of the sender. There are examples on the site of replies from abuse departments, mostly from assorted ISPs saying the info supplied by the program was sufficient for them to track down the spammer using their system for delivery.
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