On 2008-03-23, Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Goddard wrote: >> Hugh Watkins wrote: >>> dogqruomlrsa@yahoo.com wrote: >>>> As much as you love someone, recalling the details of their life at >>>> the time of their death is an overwhelming responsibility. For someone >>>> close to the person dying, writing an obituary is comforting by >>>> remembering the defining moments of an individual's life may bring >>>> comfort. Having the obituary already written and on file with your >>>> funeral provider, is not as difficult to do as you may think. >>>> What is an obituary? >>> >>> spammer trying to earn click through dollars >>> >>> Hugh W >>> >> >> Why not click on view headers and forward to the abuse address which is >> Google (surprise, surprise!)? If we regularly did this for spammers >> they might start to apply spam filters. >> > as his links are google ads I am not so certain they could be bothered > > each of his recent messages has a unique charming but empty of data text There is another risk in reporting spam to the abuse address. If the abuse address is actually owned by a spammer, as in the spammer has registered the domain himself, reporting anything to that address will get you a whole lot of new email spam. With NNTP, the risk may be low, but with email, the risk is pretty high. -- Robert Riches spamtrap42@verizon.net (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote: > On 2008-03-23, Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ian Goddard wrote: >>> Hugh Watkins wrote: >>>> dogqruomlrsa@yahoo.com wrote: >>>>> As much as you love someone, recalling the details of their life at >>>>> the time of their death is an overwhelming responsibility. For someone >>>>> close to the person dying, writing an obituary is comforting by >>>>> remembering the defining moments of an individual's life may bring >>>>> comfort. Having the obituary already written and on file with your >>>>> funeral provider, is not as difficult to do as you may think. >>>>> What is an obituary? >>>> spammer trying to earn click through dollars >>>> >>>> Hugh W >>>> >>> Why not click on view headers and forward to the abuse address which is >>> Google (surprise, surprise!)? If we regularly did this for spammers >>> they might start to apply spam filters. >>> >> as his links are google ads I am not so certain they could be bothered >> >> each of his recent messages has a unique charming but empty of data text > > There is another risk in reporting spam to the abuse > address. If the abuse address is actually owned by a > spammer, as in the spammer has registered the domain > himself, reporting anything to that address will get you a > whole lot of new email spam. With NNTP, the risk may be > low, but with email, the risk is pretty high. > Expand the headers and you'll find the abuse address. It's Google, at least it is in this case. You can always check with whois. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk