Re: sortnoxington.com - stagedgarage.com - Anything else I can do to stop the spam?
"Chris" <[email protected]> Fri, 19 May 2006 09:29:11 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.user |
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| Organization | SpamCop |
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"anon" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > "Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> Hi Mike >> >> Thank you for your input. Please forgive me that I am not as clued up and >> I.T. literate as most appear to be on this Forum. >> >> I just wanted to clear up a few points. >> >> My reference in relation to 'attack' was specifically that I am getting a >> very large amount of spam emails with a specific FROM domain name. I >> appreciate that spam origins can be faked, altered etc >> I percieve this as an ATTACK as it is starting to affect my business and >> is unwanted. 40/50 is a very large amount of junk I have to sift through >> on a daily basis from one 'apparent' source. >> Perhaps 'sift through' is the wrong term, but since I am now reporting >> all the Spam I get BY HAND to Spamcop, and I keep on seeing >> 'sortnoxington' and 'stagedgarage' constantly every day, I wondered if >> the two domains rang a bell with anyone else, but they do not appear to >> have done. >> > > <clip> > >> >> I am NOT running the JW software - In a previous message I did state that >> I was running MailWasher, which runs quite well. >> > > > Notice that this is an INLINE comment not top-posting!! > > I hope you are not using MW to 'bounce' your mail - as noted in other > posts in this thread, the from that MW bounces to is usually bogus - so > you are just spamming some innocent party! > > -- > A SpamCop user and forum reader, > Not Admin > > <clip> Point taken regarding Mailwashers 'bounce' facility. I only use this when I think there is a good chance that the sender was legitimate. As stated, I am not an I.T. expert. Forgive me for not being 'contextualised' as the previous replier stated. I will leave the argument here - Thank you for your assistance. Chris