Week 03 - Manage your Spam
Procedures to Intercept and Remove Junk E-Mail Messages
A. For Outlook
1. Click Inbox.
2. Click Organize.
3. Click Junk e-mail.
4. Select the options you want by clicking the down arrow next to each box in the first bulleted item. You can have the junk messages moved to a different folder, and/or highlighted with a color of your choice.
5. Click Turn on.
6. To add a particular sender to your junk e-mail list, right-click on the message and click Junk e-mail. You can also use Tools > Rules Wizard.
7. Use Organize > Junk e-mail for more options to edit the list of junk e-mail senders.
B. Send a Message to the Senders ISP:
1. Determine the ISP using the message header. Depending on your e-mail application, you can see the extended headers underFile > Properties >Details, or View >Options > Internet Headers, orView > Headers >Select All.
2. Another way to see the header information may be to right-click on the message itself, and then clickOptions.
3. Here's a Web site to determine the actual sender information when it is purposely obscured.
4. Send the following message to postmaster@sendersite.com where sendersite.com is the site determined in Step 1:
The following COMMERCIAL UNSOLICITED E-MAIL was received by me. Please educate your users that this spam can clog people's mailboxes and subject them to criminal prosecution.
In some states, it falls under the definition of illegal faxing without the recipient's permission. (Device having a computer, modem, and printer and capable of printing images. USC 47.5.II.227. Fine: $500 per recipient.)
In some countries, notably England, it falls under the Criminal Statutes regarding unauthorized alteration of computer data or theft of computer resources. (Theft of access time and disk space.)
Links referenced
- determine the actual sender information
- http://home.bluemarble.net/~scotty/forgery.html
- postmaster@sendersite.com
- mailto:postmaster@sendersite.com
Location http://http://www.nsbsd.org/site/index.cfm/1,109,220,html
