OT: repetitive SPAM

Occasionally, we, Oil 4 Less(R), get spam "queries" for product, and we use a boilerplate response (created due to close similarity and frequency). That response answers all questions and asks for a positive response. The same idiot sends repetitive duplicate "queries" (hence earning the label "idiot"), and we ask that they cease spamming or respond with an order. Yup, you guessed it, _continued_ repetition.

Question: Where can this crap be reported for action against the sender? The more places, the better.

Thanks.

Well then, just filter with a RegEx like this....

(@163\.com)|(@theladders\.com)|(obamacare)|(\[192\.119\.(14[4-9])|(15[0-9])\.)|(\[195\.230\.31\.)|(\[23\.24[4-5]\.)|(\[45\.62\.(16[0-9])|(17[0-9])|(18[0-9])|(19[0-1])\.)|(\[107\.183\.)|(\[23\.8[8-9]\.)|(\[39\.)|(\[104\.20[2-3]\.)|(\[115\.221\.)|(\[123\.18\.)|([116\.118\.[0-6][0-3])|(\[182\.92\.)|(\[173\.192\.)|(\[50\.2[2-3]\.)|(\[209\.\126\.112\.2)|(\[173\.2[1-3]][0-9]\.)|(\[209\.239\.[1-2][1-2][0-7]\.)|(\[169\.45\.)

and toss into Trash.

What I do to anyone sending spam is track down the company... there seem to be specialists in that, and just block their whole f..king range:

NetRange: 45.62.160.0 - 45.62.191.255 |(\[45\.62\.(16[0-9])|(17[0-9])|(18[0-9])|(19[0-1])\.) CIDR: 45.62.160.0/19 NetName: EXELION-2

I get NO spam in my InBox anymore... I think I've picked off all the majors ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Obviously, yes.

Robert - please fix your clock. It's weird to see responses with a date/time stamp before your original post. Maybe it will sort out when the rest of the world transitions back to standard time tonight. Fall back!

And you should not post stuff like "Gold?" to an electronics NG. That might also be considered spam.

Paul

Find online tutorials for reading mail headers. It's pretty easy to get spammers killed unless they're using a spam friendly network from China, Russia, Korea, Yahoo, Amazon, CloudFlare, or Google.

All that looks gibberish to me. Where does it go, and how, when one uses webmail?

I have been resetting the damn clock to the correct time and every time i plug in my Win7 HD for use, it gets altered. Maybe i should change the year to 1915..

Unfortunately, a large percentage is via gmail and F-ing Google refuses to listen.

They're regular expressions, a way to describe text patterns to a software so it can filter them out (or in, if instructed to do so).

Webmail services usually don't allow this level of filtering; you would need to download mail through your mail client like we did the old days and filter the mail once downloaded. I use Claws Mail which has a good number of plugins for doing other stuff, including dealing with spam.

Well, you fell for the trap. They are just looking for verifiably live email addresses, which are worth more than the tons of ond, dead email addresses. By responding, you proved to them that you actually read that email.

If the message says "please respond with your catalog and prices with delivery to XXYZZ" then I never respond. If they are NOT looking for a specific item that they name, then it is definitely spam.

You can also click whatever in your mailreader to "show complete message headers" and get some idea where they are sending from. If they say they are in Ohio, but the IP address is registered to Africa, for instance, they are certainly not who they say they are. There are various "whois" services that will tell you what the ISP is for any IP address.

Jon

You shouldn't have to set the clock on a PC. They check time servers and set it automatically. I think your time zone might be wrong. Also check the DST setting.

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:18:07 -0500, rickman Gave us:

"Plug in my.... HD"

Sounds like he runs Linux..

Here is the fix:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

He said the time gets set wrong when he runs Win7, not linux.

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 16:22:56 -0500, rickman Gave us:

This is a common problem when bouncing back and forth between the two.

You obviously lack the common sense and logic to see what I referred to.

If he is plugging in a Win anything drive and booting the Win OS, and gets his clock fuxored when he returns to Linux, THIS is the reason, and it is due to the Linux clock not being synced with the right time zone, so a mere change of the clock setting manually or automatically does not fix it, AND tzdata was recently updated.

So, the fix is, and this is discussed on several Linux groups, exactly as I described. THEN, both operating systems see and keep the same time, and Windblows STOPS adjusting it each time and Linux leaves it alone but it is off by an hour or even 4 as a result. It depends where he is as to how far it gets offset.

I know exactly what he said, dufus.

Just set your system to use UTC in the hardware clock in every operating system you have installed.

I have three active HDs, each bootable to a different OS. I have to de-activate Daylight Wasting Time and related changes - if not i can get up to three times the change.

Nope; Win2K, WinXP and three Win7 partitions/HDs.

Check..Win7 at times "updates" the time even tho i tell it NOT to do that. Daylight Wasting Time may be the trigger...

I have not ever run or used Linux - so what you say does not apply even remotely. And i have each OS set to NOT "automatically update". OOPS! word s/b "HAD" as in "been had by the OS". the GD OS _changed_ that. Got curious about the setting and Gack! Will have to scrub that on all HDs even if they do not need it.