On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Calvin Krug wrote to mgs@autox.team.net:
> What I always do is reply to the sender, including the original message,
> with this statement attached:
Nice idea, but unfortunately it rarely does any good. The vast majority
of spam is sent out with a faked address or someone else's address on the
"To:" line. Replying to spam almost always results either in a returned
message due to address unknown, or some completely innocent person
receiving your complaint.
In order to figure out where spam really came from, you need to turn on
full header display in your mail program, then examine the "Received"
lines in the header. Deciphering this isn't easy for the layman, but if
you are able to determine the true origin you should forward the spam -
with full original header - to the "abuse" and "postmaster" addresses at
the domain from which the spam came.
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