2008/12/11 Fran Rogers fran@nutmeg.ws:
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You could also contact his ISP. It puts them in a bad light to have someone like that on their networks and nearly always violates T&C-they might well want to terminate his service. But >> > he'll probably just get another ISP; but depending on where he >> > lives there might not be many ISPs in his area.
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It's hard to know that verizon should be in a red light, except by exhaustion. Many ISPs send auto-replies to spam reports, just for the publicity. The sheer volume of reports can make personal replies impractical. I ignore auto-replies until the problem goes away. This problem does not seem to be going away. Haggar The Horrible (with 1337 variations) seems to be his favourite cartoon character.
Right now, all I can see legally is potential for federal law concerning viruses to be of use. Physically, there is still potential for blocking the whole ISP. Do not look to hard and long at rules against this, because ISPs use spamhaus.org (SORBS/SORBL) at their own discretion. Some block e-mail, only. Some block every packet. With my level of USENET activity, I would probably see a thousand pieces of spam every day without filters, and about thirty percent of that would come from spam-friendly domains.
Wikipedia is a wonderful place to learn about rules on freedom of speech. Maybe your own ISP's support address can tell you about their spam assasin configuration. _______ Line noise did not go away. It reincarnated as spam.