Sounds like a tempting solution, but I don't have the bandwidth available to get away with doing all this. If anyone can think of a better way to handle this I'm all ears. Mike On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 KRFinch@dstsystems.com wrote: > > This was happening to us once back when I worked in Overland Park. We were > getting spammed with about a thousand messages an hour (for different > reasons mind you, but it was still happening), and the company causing the > problem was completely unresponsive and denied their involvement. We > started on one level of the company, and worked our way up through a couple > of layers of unresponsive management before we got completely fed up with > them. > > What we finally ended up doing was simply forwarding on copies of the spam > to them. We had the email addresses of several managers over there by that > time, and we just autoforwarded EVERYONE a copy. Once they got a taste of > their own medicine, they got it cleared up in less than 3 hours. :) > > Don't know if this will help or not, but it's an idea. > > Kevin Finch > Network Administrator > DST Systems, Inc. > 816/435-6039 > krfinch@dstsystems.com > > > > > > mike neuliep > .net> cc: > Sent by: Subject: Re: LugList - sorry to bug you... (fwd) > owner-kclug@marauder.i > lliana.net > > > 08/27/2002 10:29 AM > > > > > > > I banned all of swbell.net because their security administrator wasn't > doing > anything about a serious spam situation that was flooding the kclug server > with > hundreds of 2.2 meg e-mails a day. We had contacted them about the > situation > over a dozen times and they were totally unresponsive. I hate to be a dork > > but swbell users should complain to swbell that ISPs are blocking them > because > they are not enforcing their own acceptable use policy. For the time > being, > this user may want to get a free yahoo or hotmail account. Hope this > helps. > > Mike Neuliep > spam and bandwidth nazi > mike@illiana.net > > > > > >