If you happen to get "spammed" I feel the best thing you can do is send an email to the postmaster of the ISP which sent the spam mail. This is the quickest way to get some action. Howard Johnston how@micron.net Subject: [Fwd: Take your business to the next level...] Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 08:53:22 -0600 From: Howard Johnston <how@micron.net> To: postmaster@hotmail.com Postmaster: I do not appreciate being spammed by one of your users. Ethically, you should terminate this person's mail privileges immediately. Howard Johnston how@micron.net zxq4@hotmail.com wrote: > ___________________________________________________________ > > E-mail millions of people about your product , fill your down line, get your message out. > > There is no other way to reach out to so many for so littel. Electrify your business. > > Imagine only a 1/10% response per million messages = 1000 replys; can you handle it! > > We guarantee results in writing!!!!!!!! > > We will guide you as to writting a subject line and a letter that will get results. No charge. > > Limited openings! Call 1-800-600-0343 ext.1256 or To speak to a live consultant 702-390-8900 > > If you wish to be removed from this advertiser's future mailings, please reply > with the subject "Remove" and this software will automatically block you > from their future mailings. Hotmail Customer Support wrote: > NEWS FLASH: Hotmail Takes The Offensive Against Spammers > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0126/278638.html > http://www.hotmail.com/pressnospam.html > > Thanks for contacting Hotmail, the original & world's largest free > web-based email provider. > > We DON'T maintain or manage any mailing lists. We provide free email > accounts from which our users send & receive email. To ensure user > privacy, we don't monitor the content of messages as they come and go. > That being said, our TOS forbids email abuse including spam, & we > enforce our TOS with zero-tolerance zeal. > > The account you reported HAS BEEN CLOSED. +99% of these are forged > header addresses in spam NOT SENT BY OR THROUGH Hotmail. We employ > tough > spam counter-measures: > > 1) We severely LIMIT the number of individual recipients allowed per > each email, making Hotmail ineffective for spam. > > 2) Any Hotmail username beginning with a NUMERIC character is a > forgery. > > 3) We include "X-Originating-IP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]" in the header > section of each email we deliver; if email doesn't contain this line in > the full header, it DIDN'T come from Hotmail. > > 4) We maintain a FULL login IP history on each Hotmail account. > > 5) We BLOCK our relay hosts from improper use. > > 6) We have announced LEGAL action against spammers who forge Hotmail > addresses into their spam, which NOT SENT BY OR THROUGH our service. > > In general, we've found it's a BAD idea to reply to "remove" addresses, > as this usually only confirms your email address as active, and sends > extra spam your way. > > You may find some of the links below useful in your spam-fighting > efforts. Please contact us if we can be of further help. > > - Hotmail Policy Enforcement (Abuse) > > Fwd Hotmail spam to: abuse@hotmail.com (full msg AND headers) > Hotmail TOS: http://www.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/tos.cgi > Hotmail UCE policy: http://www.hotmail.com/nospam.html > GoodGuys: http://www-fofa.concordia.ca/spam/complaints.shtml > Responsible sites: http://spam.abuse.net/goodsites/ > UCE closures posted: news.admin.net-abuse.email > FTC ScamSpam: http://www.junkemail.org/scamspam/ > Spam-L FAQ: http://www.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l > "When a problem comes along, you must whip it."