complaint address

[Doug Yanega]

I shouldn't follow this up, but Kathleen said something I cannot let pass:

>> Rest assured that Mr. Castellano will ignore complaints sent to him (only
>> natural, since he evidently runs the business, and Singapore and Hong Kong
>> are THE places for people who want to run e-mail scams - I don't think I've
>> seen a single honest business with a domain there in my 10+ years on the
>> Net), but if you complain politely to postmaster at resolver.net, that should
>> get someone's SERIOUS attention.
>
>True.  There is something even more effective: tell you Internet Service
>Provider (ISP).  That should get some good service as well: an ISP can
>block email coming in that originates from an offending site,  Although
>this situation, it coming from overseas makes it a little harder, but
>not much.  It works very well for spam email.

This is NOT, in any real way, "effective", any more than unplugging your TV
and radio is effective in stopping wars, murders, etc. Getting the
offending individual's account and/or website closed IS effective, and the
only reason we still *have* a functional internet is because some of us
DON'T use killfiles and filters. A "cop-out" accomplishes nothing. I don't
mean to pick on Kathleen, either - this "delete button" approach is a
*general* problem, and while asking your ISP to set up a filter may be a
good backup course of action (it *is* better than simply deleting mail, as
most folks do), it is by no means the *first* choice.
        Most directly, though, in the present case such action would be
*truly* worthless, because the message was delivered via leps-l, so even if
your ISP put up a filter, you'd still see anything Mr. Castellano sent to
leps-l in the future. Also, as a general rule, spammers use false and/or
morphing addresses, so you CAN'T set up a filter. Prevention is the only
cure.

Peace,


Doug Yanega       Dept. of Entomology           Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315
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