3.3. Spam postings (Love-Hounds and their behaviour...)
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This article is from the Gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush FAQ, by Ulrich Grepel uli@zoodle.robin.de with numerous contributions by others.
3.3. Spam postings (Love-Hounds and their behaviour...)
What is a spam?
Spamming is the posting of massive numbers of duplicate articles on
Usenet. Spams don't have to be commercial, they don't even have to be
unrelated to the discussion topic... but they usually are. A commercial
posting that's not really on topic probably is posted to a big number of
other newsgroups/mailing lists too, so any not Kate-related commercial
posting is probably a spam.
Someone selling a few Kate Bush records is definitely not a spam. A
professional record dealer selling more than a few records is also not a
spam. (Nevertheless both should avoid posting long sales list to the
group. Instead post an announcement that you've got stuff to sell and
will send the list to interested people.)). Remember that even if you
don't like commercial postings at all, some of us like those that are
Kate-related.
A 'student' praising magazine subscriptions most definitely is a spam.
Unfortunately, spamming is not illegal. And if it was illegal in one
country it doesn't have to be illegal world-wide.
So what to do about spam postings?
1. Write to the relevant postmasters (politely, they're likely to have
hundreds if not thousands of similar mails), possibly including the
complete spam posting including *all* headers (esp. "Received:" lines).
If writing to postmaster@spammers.site doesn't help, you can check
the chain of postmasters in the "Received:" headers, or you can find
out the domain servers of the spammer's site by entering the spammer's
domain (e.g. "spammer.com") on http://www.internic.net/wp/whois.html
and complain at the "postmaster" at that site (this assumes the
spammer's domain isn't completely faked).
2. Do not mailbomb the originator. Most of the times, the addresses
are faked, that is, the only one not having trouble with the mail
bomb is the spammer himself.
3. Do not write to love-hounds/rec.music.gaffa, we all know it as well
as you do.
4. With repeated spams, check out with the maintainers of our moderator
software <love-hounds-request@gryphon.com>. They might be able to do
something about it.
5. Most important: do not call/write/ask/whatever the originator about
whatever he wants to offer to you. That's what he wants to achieve,
and that might be what's paying him (addresses = information = money).
You can complain if you know who he is, but please: do not play into
his hands.
See also the net-abuse newsgroups (news.admin.net-abuse.misc etc.). Lots
of the information here is from [DB].
P.S.: to be a bit more PC: spammers could be female as well...
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