Spam from Highwinds Media

[The Magpie]

We're getting a lot of spam here all sourced from Highwinds Media
which appears to be an American company. Anything you American readers
can do to stop this idiot - report him to his ISP or whatever?
Anything that can stop the moron.

 

[Joe Kesselman]

We're getting a lot of spam here all sourced from Highwinds Media
which appears to be an American company. Anything you American readers
can do to stop this idiot - report him to his ISP or whatever?
Anything that can stop the moron.

Contacted the ISP (Tip: Look at the full message headers for the
X-Complaints-To. Their response: "We have been actively working to
deal with this recent, aggressive spam attack and believe that we have
finally gotten things under control. Please check the announcement on
our website, http://www.usenetmonster.com"

If it happens again, you now know what to do: check X-Complaints-To: and
send mail to that userID, including a full copy of the offending post
(again, with full headers; they may need all that detail in order to
trace the troublemaker). Keep it at least moderately polite; in most
cases ISPs really are making an honest effort to prevent abuse.

 

[The Magpie]

[snip]... Keep it at least moderately polite; in most
cases ISPs really are making an honest effort to prevent abuse.

That was more or less what I was asking - some ISPs here in the UK are
damned hard to kick into action and I wondered if the same was true
for you folks.

 

[Joe Kesselman]

That was more or less what I was asking - some ISPs here in the UK are
damned hard to kick into action and I wondered if the same was true
for you folks.

Drifting offtopic, but: Some are, some aren't. As anywhere. If you gripe
nothing may happen, but if you don't gripe you *know* nothing will
happen, so...

(Wonder whether anyone has created a plug-in for Firefox which would
make sending a complaint a single-click operation. If not, someone should.)

 

[Peter Flynn]

Drifting offtopic, but: Some are, some aren't. As anywhere. If you gripe
nothing may happen, but if you don't gripe you *know* nothing will
happen, so...

(Wonder whether anyone has created a plug-in for Firefox which would
make sending a complaint a single-click operation. If not, someone should.)

Sure-fire way to get them to block all Firefox users...

///Peter