spam mail in this group

in article snipped-for-privacy@sizefitter.com, Johannes H Andersen at snipped-for-privacy@sizefitter.com wrote on 26/01/2004 00:49:

Yeah, too right.

Actually Dave Hinz did make a rare appearance yesterday ... Coincidence?

Paul

Prolly not - I'm around, just with general craziness at work cutting into my freetime. The newsserver I use (cis.dfn.de) does a great job of whacking spam before it gets served out, so I haven't seen that to which Johannes is apparently refering.

Dave

Great Johannes,

But... You don't actually believe that any spammers bother to read a grup before they spam it? Still it's comforting to know that you're doing something against it ;-)

X.

The fact that they're now starting to omit the 'complaints to' address is no hindrence at all.

Oh, agreed. If someone isn't savvy about reading headers to find the _real_ source of spam (email or usenet), they can use spamcop.net's free reporting service. There's an option to show you exactly what it is doing, which I have found to be quite a useful tutorial in knowing what to believe, and what to discard, when it comes to headers.

Dave