Karen, HELP Who can I forward an e-mail I just rec (NOT From rootsweb) for a url for aXXXXXX site. It just needs to be clicked on the url to show XXX pictures. Is there a agency I can forward this to??? Since I just got spammed with this... how may others with young children have. Rose Landmesser Karen Kolavalli wrote: > Thank you, Judy, for the info on forwarding spam to abuse@rootsweb.com and > asking for action. The following is their initial response. I'm posting it > here because I think it's valuable information for all of us on how to deal > with this problem to keep it from ruining *our* List. Karen > > Tim Pierce writes: > > This is an automatic response to the mail you sent to > abuse@rootsweb.com. I'm Tim Pierce, senior system administrator > for the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative. Currently I > handle all mail for abuse@rootsweb.com, and will generally act > within minutes on any report of a RootsWeb-related attack. > > Important! If you're complaining about ``spam'' you've received > recently (unsolicited commercial e-mail), MAKE SURE THAT THE SPAM > CAME FROM ROOTSWEB! Check the full headers of the message and see > if there's a ``rootsweb.com'' anywhere in there. If the spam > didn't come from our machines, there just isn't anything that I > can do about it -- sorry. > > These recent spams have already been dealt with: > > * report@top-10.com: "Visibility Report" > * uinfo78@yahoo.com: "STOP SICKNESS AND DISEASE FOREVER!" > * seedman8@apexmail.com: "$1 Goes A Long Way!!!" > * LJGEG@aol.com: "The Sanarchist Cookbook" > * "Photo Mousepads" [GIDGE1026@aol.com, Amyj4547@aol.com, etc.] > * "Cable Descrambler" [GIDGE1026@aol.com, Amyj4547@aol.com, etc.] > > Thanks for your extra reports, though: they give us more evidence > to use, should we ever be able to mount a legal battle against this > stuff. > > ----------------------------- > > If the spam didn't come from RootsWeb, what can you do about it? > > - Ask your local tech support folks for help identifying > the sender. Many ISPs provide someone like me whose job it > is to complain about spam on behalf of all their users. Find > out whether there's such a person at your site. > > - Join CAUCE, the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail. > These folks, who really have their act together, are lobbying > Congress to pass a bill to criminalize junk e-mail. They can use > all the help they can get. See http://www.cauce.org. > > - If you're a U.S. citizen, write to your Congressional > representatives and urge them to co-sponsor HR 1748, the > "Netizens Protection Act of 1997" sponsored by Rep. > Christopher Smith of New Jersey. This bill would extend > existing laws against junk faxes against junk e-mail, and is > the only bill presently before Congress that would stop spam > before it starts. > > I do try to ensure that no spam makes it through our systems twice > (or even once if that's possible), and I try to respond to every > RootsWeb-related spam report that I get. If you haven't heard > from me in a day or so and are concerned that I missed your > complaint, don't be shy -- remind me. > > Thanks for supporting RootsWeb! > > Regards, > Tim Pierce > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative > system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades