Space Forum / Shuttle / June 2009

No.  Complaints go to the ISP - I didn't do so this time, but it's easy to
find.  If you have Outlook Express, the process is as follows:

1    Right click on the post.
2    Click on "Properties".
3    Click on "Details" tab; highlight all the information and then copy it.
4    Close the "Properties" tab.
5    Click on the post and then on "Forward".
6    Above the body of the email, paste all the details.
7    Find the IP (something like "NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.43.144.244" - yours,
by the way) and copy it.
8    Go to an "IP Look-up" site like WHOIS Lookup
(http://domains.whois.com/domain.php?action=whois) and paste the IP in the
appropriate box.  Fill out the rest of the form as needed and then click
"Search".  This will bring up the ISP for the spammer.
9    Put the ISP's "Abuse" email address (something like abuse@bigpond.com)
in the "To:" box at the top of the email and then put "Spam" into the
Subject: box.
10    Send the email - if everyone did this (and it's simpler to do than
type out here!), it would eliminate spam from all groups - ISP's won't
ignore hundreds of complaints about one of their customers.