getting back at spam

[pkd_lives]

Well after carefully guarding my e-mail address (well one of them) a friend of mine recommended a page to me, by entering my e-mail so it would get sent to me. And guess what, I'm getting SPAM from that site now.

Now if I show the headers I get an e-mail address that is different from the senders address. Is this the address that they are trying to keep secret. Also there is a number that looks very much like an IP. I shall try a whois on it, and hopefully I can report an abuse statement to the ISP. But that is not necesarily going to get anywhere. Basiclly what I was planning on doing was subscribing both of the e-mail address to as many porn spam sites as I can find.

but can I do anything with the IP. Like use that to get them spammed to hell and back. I don't need to tell them who it was from, and I have no need to feel vindicated I just want to get back in some way.

Also nothing that is illegal. I can post a copy of the e-mail if you want, so you can verify what I say is true.

Any ideas?

I used to send junk mail back as return to sender, after a while my name would get removed, however advertising myself on the 'net like that might backfire really badly.

I was planning on doing something like this, but with hotmail it was a daunting prospect, now that I don't have hotmail this site has accounted for two of the three pieces of spam I have recieved in the last six months, in this account. And when you are talking a small number you can start to make efforts to fight the spam scurge.

[Calum]

hmm, personally i would just block the sender's address. it always works for me.
not sure about how this all works but i think that not much is illegal when it comes to spam.

[voidmain]

I just block the address that it is coming from in my sendmail configuration (block the first address you see in the header within the brackets "[]"). But if you don't run your own SMTP server then you will need to do it at the client side. Don't ya just *love* friends? And of course if the site he entered your address in passes it on to other spammers you are in for a long ride. ORDB gets 50% of it or more (again only if you run your own SMTP server).

[pkd_lives]

Well I don't use an account from a proper ISP or anything, I use only on-line e-mail accounts. I'm just pissed because I've gotten spoilt, six months without one single spam, after six months and several thousand pieces of spam with hotmail.

And so I only have the providers blocking facility, which in this case is Lycos - which is forever returning mail because the server keeps getting banned.

After running around ARIN I found that their official policy is not to return spam with spam, so maybe subscribing their e-mail is not a good idea. On the other hand If the ISPs don't effectively fight spam then why should I care if I help overload their systems. Moral dilemma of the day, fight fire with higher morality and forgiveness, or fire with FIRE!