who has the authority to decide spam sites? and on what basis they will divide the sites as spam sites?
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Actually, anyone has the "authority" to decide what\nis spam and what is a spam site, but of course some \npeople have more influence than others :-)\n\nConsider that any user can train their email filters\nhow to re-file incoming mail into an "inbox" or into\nsome kind of "junk" folder (or even directly into\nthe recycle bin).\n\nAt a higher level would be an ISP or even a telecom\ncompany that filters out everything from certain IP\naddresses which are generally recognized as sources\nof unwanted SPAM.\n\nThat higher level filtering is usually based on a\n"Black List" -- which is just a list of sites which\nare known spammers.  Anyone can create a "blacklist",\nbut the authority or power comes from whoever \npays attention to it (and thus filters traffic \nbased on it).\n\nFor more information, search for "blacklist+spam" in google
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There's a lot of iterations of this trash mail.  There are also a lot of scripts that just look through web pages for email addys to find victims to spam.\n\nCheck out www.419eater.com for a laugh and more info.
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Sending spam and scams.
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Legally, they have to but not all do.  BUT the fine print is where you'll find the real deal on the promotion.  Most of these companies just want your contact information so they can send you ads and promos from other companies.  Technically, it's not spam if they do this, b/c you're opting in for all of those emails when you sign up with them.  A lot of these companies also want you to sign up other people in order for you to get the "prize."  Most web savvy people avoid these ads altogether.  I suggest you do as well.
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They're trying to limit spam.
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Put the particular member(s) on Moderation.  You can moderate their posts and only allow certain messages reach the Message Board.  Of course, this is all assuming that you are a Moderator with the capability of doing that.
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On the list of choices just above the message, where there's "move to" and "delete," another choice is "spam."  If you mark it as spam, you won't get more from that same address.  After awhile, you will have weeded out the stuff you don't want.
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you can either spam them or put them on your block list... which is under... options and then under spam, u can go to block addresses and then block them.
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On most sites such as Yahoo, MSN, forums etc, they have a usage policy, or sometimes called EULA or end user licence agreement.\nThese state how the site is controlled, what behaviour is acceptable etc.\nMost times you can find it when you look at the sites help files or FAQ's.\nMost of these type of sites are monitored to a point electronically, so any language etc or behavour is picked up and when a warning is given and not heeded, they tend to suspend the account.
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In Yahoo mail you can block the spammer's email address.  You'll never see the emails because they just get bounced back to the sender.  I believe you can block up to 500  addresses.  But having them go to your bulk folder is a good thing.  That just means the spam filters are working  :-)  You can  delete any addresses you don't recognize without reading them. If you DO recognize an address you can always open it, read it, and click the "this is not spam" button.
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definitely spam, and a lot of these carry spyware or viruses so be careful when you open them and never follow any of the links in them.
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Your question makes little sense, that is perhaps why no one has responded to you.  There really is no need to follow up with another question several minutes later, the questions are active for quite some time. \n\nIf you are getting spam from sbcyahoo.com addresses you may wish to forward them to abuse@sbcyahoo.com.\n\nIn this day and age few of the spam messages actually originate from where they say the originate. Many spammers forge headers, including forging the 'from' address.  \n\nBelow is a basic tutorial on deciphering headers so you can complain to the right people.
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did you do an advance search with google.  There is a place that you can put the ***SPAM*** into that says must contain.
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There are basically two places where you can work to stop the SPAM:\n\n1. in your system and its software, as suggested by above 3 responses.\n\n2. Please inform you ISP or whosoever providing you the Internet/Broadband service. They are also able to "block" SPAM. It worked with me.\n\nBy the way, I am far from an 'expert' on these Trouble Shooting, I am a victim like you and learnt (and still learning) after getting bombarded by the SPAM, Spyware and such menaces. Best of Luck!!
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How can I "block" a site?\n\nBlocking a domain is a serious step, and can generally only be done by\nthe sysadmin. It involves configuring one's router to ignore any and all\nTCP/IP packets from a given network, regardless of type. This means they\ncan't even browse your website. See IDP. An\nautomated method for doing this is by joining the Realtime Blackhole\nList, which has proven effective in keeping spam down on the sites that have\njoined it. More information can be found at\nhttp://mail-abuse.org/rbl.\n\nYour administrator could also configure their MTA (mail transport agent)\nto refuse mail from a spammer's site. This is not 100% effective,\nbecause the spammers can route their mail via an innocent third party's\nserver. More and more sites are disabling the relay feature from their\nservers, though, making it harder for the spammers to get through. \n\nAnother step some administrators take is to block a site by way of\nProcmail, which can filter mail by the IP address of the originating site\n(provided this information is present in the message headers).
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you are right on the money in your assumption. some web email spam filters are designed to detect advertisements using sophisticated word detection syntax parameters, one of which is web addresses. adding a space to the address breaks the flow of the address, and when the filter doesn't know what something is, it is assumed for safety reasons to be something other than spam, unless something else indicates that it is spam. One of the parameters of all web URLs is that spaces cannot be used, so to find a space in a combination of letters, numbers and symbols of any order eliminates the possibility in the computer's programming (mind) that it could be a URL, and moves on.
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Hard to avoid.  Reporting spam and getting a spam blocker will help but I'm afraid it's pretty tough to avoid completely.