> I received a message from some people about my e-mail address being on a > CD, I sent them a reply stating that I was not interested and to please > remove me. They have since be sending me messages with very vulgar > language. Can anyone help get this stopped? > > The address it is coming from is: > > postmaster@153.34.67.139 and > abuse@153.34.67.240 The second guy claims he is targeting "antispammers" which, I'm sure, is a lie.... He, so far, is just trying to piss people off. I like the ads better, I guess (s)..... Like Michel and Carl (and a whole ton of other people, I'm sure), I too have received messages (2 so far) from the latter IP address. Upon looking at the header, all domain names and IP's (including the above) are bogus, of course. The only real domain name is the presumed mail server, AOL. This is, of course, no suprise, as AOL offers those trial accounts in which anyone can use without giving any real contact information, AFAIK. > PLEASE HELP ME! Good luck, there is nothing you can really do unless you have any real information as to who this #$@%@$#% is.... The only thing you can do is abandon your current account, and start up another. Then, don't ever use your real e-mail address (s). Most spammers get your address form newsgroups and such. They have automated programs that grab addresses from headers, sigs, and such. I have seen two things that may help: 1) In your news package, enter a phonetic spelling of your address, for example, scotbATvitusDOTcom. A similar approach is to use scotb@biteme.vitus.com and in your sig put "If replying, please remove the "biteme" from the address." This should keep the 'bots from getting your address... 2) My ISP (in Minneapolis) has recently started a "nospam" server. You then give out your address as scotb@nospam.visi.com. The nospam server will block certain domain names and IP (such as savetrees.com) from ever getting to your account. Once a spammer is detected, the IP can then be added to the filter. Of course, in many situations, this would mean you would never get legitimate mail form those sources either.... Most "better" mail packages will allow you to set up a similar filtering scheme locally as well.... > My 6 year old is starting to read, and he saw this message and was trying > to read it. The internet is not for sensitive ears, I'm afraid..... HTH, Scot.