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Stephen's No Spam Page I love the internet, but one thing I hate abou the net is spam. It's often called UCE - Unsolicited Commercial Email.It's difficult for an average user to complain about spam, as many of the spammers will forge data in the headers of the email so that it's hard to tell where the spam originated. For most users, the best solution is to ignore the spam the best they can. Any response to spam (including "remove" requests" is likely to get you more spam, so unless you have the knowlege to manually parse the headers and complain to the spammers ISP, you should probably delete it and move on. Recently I've been using a tool called MailWasher which does a very good job of eliminating the spam. There are other good tools out there. Some are pay services, and others are free. Spammers often claim that they are excercicing "free speech". I'm a big proponent of free speech. If they want to put up websites advertising whatever scam they are running, I have no problem with that. That's what free speech is really about. However, free speech doesn't mean that everyone else has to listen to you. It doesn't mean that you can push the cost of your "free speech" onto other people by using their servers and email accounts without permission. And it doesn't mean that other people have to shut up and take it. We - the people who are being spammed - also have free speech rights, including the right to complain about or make fun of spammers. Spammers are breaking the rules of the ISP's that sell them access. They are breaking laws. And they are ruining email by forcing their ads into our mailboxes at an incredible rate. I'm receiving 400 spams a day - every day. Not to mention the bounces that I get because spammers forge made-up whitis.com addresses into their mailbox. Do you still think spam is free speech? Here's what judges have said. U.S. Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin: “[Spammers] have come to court not because their freedom of speech is threatened but because their profits are; to dress up their complaints in First Amendment garb demeans the principles for which the First Amendment stands.” Chief Justice Berger, U.S. Supreme Court: “Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit. We categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even ‘good’ ideas on an unwilling recipient. The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person’s domain.” Spam has gotten worse, year after year. It will continue to get worse until either laws or technology find a way to stop it. I believe we need a combination. Spam will ruin Email as a way to communicate if we allow it to do so. Here is some information about mailwiper.com. They sell software that they claim will help eliminate spam. However, they advertise by sending spam. Do you trust them? I don't. They threatened to sue me after I put up a web page showing the spams that they had sent me. Spammers often forge email addresses at my domain when they send their spam. (Yes, they are just honest businessmen who have to lie about who they are in every advertisement.) For instance, rolexeverywhere.info sells fake rolex watches, and sends out spam which forge whitis.com addresses in their header. Another spammer has been forging whitis.com addresses in their "buy drugs online" spam. You can read about it here, where I'll show that mypillsrx.com, a subsidiary of well known spammer Eddy Marin and Internet America LLC, was sending spam with forged addresses from my domain, as well as others. That particular domain has been shut down, but I continue to get bounces which lead to websites selling the same product, using the same graphics and HTML design as mypllsrx.com used. So I know that the spammer is still forging their mail to make it appear that I sent it. Here are some of the other domains which have forged whitis.com addresses to sell various drugs. (All of which probably tie back to mypillsrx and Eddy Marin, though I can't be sure, since they are hosting in China and hide well enough that I can't tell. Some of these are now dead - some aren't, but probably will be before long. Those near the top used the same HTML design as mypillsrx.com was using.)
http://bubb-rubb.biz/
Selling fake rolex watches, and forging my domain in their spam, we have Some of the spam sent advertising watches simply redirects to http://www.onlinereplicastore.com/. For instance, http://www.toels.com/replica/jpeg/ was the URL in many of the spams that bounced back to me due to their forgery, and if you try to load that page, it simply goes to onlinereplicastore.com. http://www.mejc.com/r/jpeg/ also forwards there. Here are some links to information about spam and how we can fight it.
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