Trying to unsubscribe from CMP's spam (e.g EETimes)... is it possible?

Hello Lewin,

How 'bout finding the email address of the editor in chief and sending said message there? If that doesn't do the trick maybe an auto-fwd of all the unwanted email to the chief's address would do it.

Regards, Joerg

I maintain a filtering arrangement on my website. Each magazine is assigned its own address. Recalcitrant mailers magically cease to have an address.

...Jim Thompson

I have found greylisting to do wonders.

Greylisting looks at the IP address of the sender and the recipient address. If the system does not recognize this information, then it will temporarily reject the e-mail. All legitimate e-mail systems will attempt to resend the e-mail at a later time, and the e-mail will go through.

Most applications that send junk e-mail just send junk e-mail messages once and do not attempt to resend them. These junk e-mail applications use the "fire-and-forget" method, which means that if the junk e-mailer was unsuccessful at sending junk e-mail to a particular e-mail address, the application will not try to resend that e-mail message.

Greylisting does not delete legitimate e-mail messages. All legitimate e-mails will be successfully delivered using greylisting. The only potential effect greylisting may have for pair Networks customers is a slight delay in the delivery of legitimate e-mail messages.

Siol

------------------------------------------------ Rather than a heartless beep Or a rude error message, See these simple words: "File not found."

message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

If the system does not recognize this information, then

attempt to resend the e-mail at a later time, and the

and do not attempt to resend them. These junk e-mail

e-mailer was unsuccessful at sending junk e-mail to a

message.

will be successfully delivered using greylisting. The

slight delay in the delivery of legitimate e-mail

.... Until the spammers realize this, and start a "Fire twice and forget" algorithm, and now you have twice the volume of spam on the network....

-jg

Everyone has some sort of webhost you can report spam to and they'll slap the organization (most webhost will drop a customer for repeated spamming), but it appears eetimes does its own hosting. Everyone pays someone for bandwidth to connect to others, but it appears these clowns connect through qwest.net, which I recall from years ago as being uu.net, notorious for ignoring spam complaints about the people they sell bandwidth to. So that method doesn't look like it would do anything in this case.

Here's an idea, generate a new, 'virgin' account and 'ubsubscribe' it, and see how long it takes for the spam to show up. I see you have gmail, you can do your own invites.

Read up on the CAN SPAM act, while it doesn't slow down the intentionally criminal spammers, perhaps there's something in it that will stop such a "mainslease" spammer. It may get their attention if a government official notifies them that they're violating federal law (IIRC CAN SPAM requires a WORKING 'remove' mechanism).

The way I do it is with E-mail forwarding from my website.

EACH magazine/whatever gets its/his/her own personalized E-mail address.

When I unsubscribe, as I did recently from Electronic Products, I give them a week to actually do their unsubscribe thing.

When Electronic Products didn't, I simply removed EPMag@... from my accepted list.

Since only personalized addresses are forwarded, I haven't received any true blanket spams in probably a year.

My unused dummy account name at Cox has collected 2014 spams since November 9, and they claim they protect me from spam ;-)

...Jim Thompson