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To: ThePythonicCow

“There is nothing you can do about this, other than improving your spam filters.”

I disagree with this. You *can* attempt to read the header information off the original email and determine a consistent source IP. This has worked or me in the past with unsophisticated spoofers. Then you can whois them and get contact info.

Another option is to check what site they are referencing in the original email. It is possible you can whois that and get the administrative contact for the domain. There is a decent chance, however, that the info there will be bogus, too. When it was kiddie porn, it turned out to be some poor woman in Kentucky who didn’t have a clue what was happening when I called her. She had already called the FBI re: identity theft.


31 posted on 04/15/2008 9:48:52 PM PDT by bolobaby
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To: bolobaby
What you say is true enough. If one is being hit with spam or these bounces from just an occasional source, one can track it down, and have a decent chance of fixing it. This does require some understanding of email headers and whois, just as you describe.

I was speaking from the perspective of someone who gets literally thousands of junk emails per day, on two email addresses (my personal one, and my work one) both of which I have widely exposed to public view for many years.

One can bail out ones fishing boat with a bucket. A single person cannot bail out a ship in tsunami. All one can do in that case is button down the hatches and stay below decks. If the ship is big and strong, and able to be operated without going topside, then it's full steam ahead.

36 posted on 04/16/2008 6:50:17 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (By their false faith in Man as God, the left would destroy us. They call this faith change.)
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