On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 Cwn74@aol.com wrote:
> There has been an awful lot of smut spam comming from earthlink acounts in
> recent months and in response many users have blocked mail from there. I
> would have except my Sister has an earthlink account. Complain to earthlink
> to clean up their act!
>
> earthlink isn't alone, at present I have some isp blocked (worldcom or
> something) and had hotmail.com blocked a few months ago...
Very little spam actually originates from earthlink, worldcom, hotmail,
erols, flashnet, and the other big providers. If you ignore the address
on the "From:" line (which is almost always faked in spam) and examine the
"Received" lines you can determine where it really came from.
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