Re: EdShop

[Peter Evans peterev@xxxxxxxx]

Richard Henderson:

>Would you care to suggest the proper text for complaining to Media3.net?

How about:

  whois shows that edshop.com is hosted by you. If this is
  so, you may like to know that these people are spammers.
  They spammed the XyWrite mailing list, of which I am a
  member. The polite and legalistic and "sincere" mumbo-
  jumbo at the top and bottom merely shows that edshop.com
  is the more polite kind of spammer. (Presumably they
  backdated the message by five days in order that
  http://spamcop.net/ would reject it as "too old" and thus
  refuse to "chomp" the message header and identify the ISP
  that edshop used.)

  Spam follows:

Followed of course by the spam.

That's rather more detailed than what I wrote myself. The key points are:
Append the complete message, with all the headers. Be polite, and don't
make any threat. Don't use any address you value in order to send the
mail, on the off-chance that the person who reads your message might
forward it to the spammer. (I use my junky hotmail address for this kind
of thing.)

Your question is good and if my reply is helpful I'm glad to be of help.
But I hesitate: at least one friend (and subscriber to this list) says that
he seldom gets spam and indeed for every such pink item he gets five or
more messages about it -- so he's much more tired of messages such as this
than he is of spam itself. That's not the only good reason not to let this
develop into a major thread. Instead, look at http://spamcop.net/ and
http://www.samspade.org/ and the links therefrom; almost everything is
explained there; sometimes in rather more length and detail than one wants,
but sometimes hilariously.
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Peter Evans