It used to be easy: just bounce a copy to the originating domain's
postmaster and let the perpetrator take his just desserts. That was fine
when a slice of spam showed up in the bitstream only a couple times a
month. Now, with tons of it showing up each day, and countless newbies
coming online thinking it's perfectly all right to advertise whatever
they've got to a hundred newsgroups at a clip, it's getting unmanageable.
SPAM makes it quick and easy to bounce spam articles: just save them
to your hard disk, giving each message a different filename (I use '1',
'2', '3', etc. in a directory called I:\SPAM\ -- but you can use any names
you like). Then run SPAM. SPAM reads the header of each message in the
configured directory, determines where it came from, and creates a message
to "postmaster" at that address forwarding a copy of the original message.
You have a choice of ways to send the forwards SPAM creates. If you use
SOUPER, you may configure SPAM to place the messages in a REPLY.ZIP packet,
either adding them to an existing packet, or creating a new one,
automatically. SPAM is completely compatible with YARN.
If you don't use SOUPER, you may create messages with To: and Subject:
lines for easy importation into your mail editor, or with "mail
destination" lines that may be read to the command line of a unix session.
SPAM - V 0.10 Beta - July 4, 1996 - For PC - Includes DOS and OS/2 versions.
Freeware
BirdSoft Comuter Proucts - Rich Veraa - North Miami, Florida, USA
I've placed a copy on
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming/spam01.zip
or you can dowmload it from
http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/
Cheers,
Rich
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