Spam Hijackers

[Lynn]

Who are these people posting spam on the forum? Worse, some of them are sending me emails to my personal email address.

Lynn

[Italy4me]

Lynn,
I am deleting the spam and banning the spammers as soon as I see them but it is becoming a real pain.
It might be a good idea to go to your control panel and edit the option that allows others who join the forum to email you directly to stop any further unwanted spam emails.
If anyone wants to contact you via the forum they can do it via private message and this way your email address is not available to all and sundry.
Hope this is helpful, Lesley

[falcon]

As a director of a small ISP in the UK, spam is something that should be fought tooth and nail.

It would greatly help the anti spam industry, to send the mail (with a copy of the header informatio) back to your internet service provider with a request to blacklist that address. Remember that the 'From' address is usually not valid and only the header information can provide the ISP with a trace of the spam origin and a unique ID which is then put on an international database. Of course I am not sure if the Italian providers are as keen to deal with spam as UK providers but it is worth a try.

One golden rule is NEVER respond to spam mail as that confirms that your email address is live and working hence it will stay on the spam list. For example many of the virus hoaxes mails that go around are a way of picking up valid addresses for spam lists.

Also, you can try spamcop.net to report spam as well ABUSE@NA.nic.it and CC info@nic.it in Italy. Of course with some email programs you can block a particular address via your spam filter but these are not always effective; better done on the server.

Francis