From news.missouri.edu!sp2n04.missouri.edu!mv!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-22.sprintlink.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!portc01.blue.aol.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Sat Sep 28 22:43:44 1996 Path: news.missouri.edu!sp2n04.missouri.edu!mv!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-22.sprintlink.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!portc01.blue.aol.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: wmbbs@aol.com (WMBBS) Newsgroups: alt.bbs Subject: Re: Inappropriate ADS???? Date: 21 Sep 1996 04:37:49 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 48 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <5209gt$cpe@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <51u8db$1jra@useneta1.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader In article <51u8db$1jra@useneta1.news.prodigy.com>, WUUW40A@prodigy.com (J Jaquez ms) writes: >All these get rich quick ads? What do they have to do with BBS's? Get >them >off of here..... If you are tired of all this make-money-fast (MMF) and related spam. Get active in getting it out of here. It takes more than just complaining. Here is some things that you can do to help get these spammers out of here. 1. Send a e-mail message to the person posting the spam and inform him or her that it is off subject and is illegal. It violates Title 18, United States Code, Section 1302, the Postal Lottery Statue. 2. Forward a copy of their chain letter to the IRS. All that money coming in is required to be reported as income. Come the end of the year when the spammer files taxes, the IRS will be looking to make sure that he or she reported all that money. If it isn't, the IRS will audit them. 3. Forward a copy to the Postal Service- customer@email.usps.gov and the National Fraud Commission - nfic@internetMCI.com 4. Complain directly to the Postmaster at the site from which the mail originated. Often such mail is a violation of the ISP's (Internet Service Provider's) usage agreement. By looking in the mail headers at the bottom of the mail message, you will often see a line reading something like "Message-ID: <9424$2dc2@mail.example.com>". In such a case, you can try writing to "Postmaster@ example.com" and ask that they curb their errant mailer. If the message-ID line is missing or looks like it might be fake, then look at the bottom of the headers for the bottom-most line, which should read something like: Received: from email, example.net (mail.example.net [192.229.169.1]) by emin22.mail.aol.com(8.6 12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00559; Fri, 20 Sept 1996 19:12;34 -0500. This indicates the mail arrived at AOL from a server called mail.example.net. In this example, you would want to contact postmaster@examplenet. You can omit the"mail" or any other qualifiers that you see in the address. If there are multiple Received lines, please also send complaints to any other domains shown. Richard E. Strait - System Administrator West Michigan BBS (616)725-8163