X-Message-Number: 17119
From: "Michael LaTorra" <>
Subject: Re: message #17099 Junk mail-------- help
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:42:40 -0600

Dave,
I absolutely HATE junk e-mail. Unfortunately, we have no legal leverage and
little practical control over it, aside from using e-mail filters (which are
easily circumvented by spammers who create new e-mail accounts all the
time).

One action that I do take is to examine the header information showing how
the junk e-mail was routed. It is often possible with the less adept junk
e-mailers to ascertain their true home domain and then to notify the
domain's administrator about abuse of his/her system.

For more information and tools for tracing an IP address to a domain name
and admin e-mail address, go to UXN Spam Combat at:
http://combat.uxn.com/

Regards,

Michael LaTorra


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