Gavin writes:

>There's a form at <http://www.iemmc.org/remove.htm> that you can use to
>add yourself to a global "I don't want junk e-mail" list.  The IEMMC
>bills itself as a trade organization for internet marketers.  I believe
>it's mostly our old friend Sanford (may he burn in hell slowly) "the
>spam king" Wallace, which means that if you add yourself to their list
>that it should at least eliminate all junk mail from Cyber Promotions
>and their obnoxious clients (savetrees?).

I think this is turning out to be a ruse from Spamford to get more
legitimate mail addresses. I've requested a couple of times to be
removed from their lists. Hasn't worked. I've gotten a number of spams
where the spammers says they're part of iemmc. It seems to have worked
for Gavin, but I'd be carefull.

I was getting on the order of 50 spams per day. One of the main sources
seems to have been the InterNIC database. I maintain multiple domains
and therefore are listed multiple times in the database. I get the same
spam five times each, and it so happens I maintain 5 domains. For those
doing the same thing, I would recomment in the future using a generic
name such as "domreg" or somesuch instead of your real address (and
don't automatically forward that mail :-) to yourself).

>Recently there has begun a new class of "lost e-mail" spams that
>pretend to be private email between two people talking about some "hot
>web site" or product, and the message dosen't even include you as
>a recipient.

I've updated to sendmail 8.8.6 and some additional spam filter code from
a place in Germany that has markedly reduced the amount of spams that
get through the door. They can also handle the "lost e-mail" spams as
well. I went my first 24 hour period without a spam in a long long time.

3K has the ability to filter spam (we just traded filter lists) and the
other vendors probably do as well. It's unfortunate, but I think
legislation is the only way this problem will be dealt with effectively.

For further reading: http://spam.abuse.net.