[PCR-1000] RadioCom updates

[mikea]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:22:25PM -0500, A10382 wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> How about teaching the rest of us how to dig up this info from the user's
> email properties.  It's easy to view the entire email including headers, but
> we all probably need some education in the tools used to get to the
> 'bottom'.
> 
> I'm quite tired of those that have besieged me with SPAM, Porn, and
> generally annoying emails....

My day job is as antispam-and-antivirus guy for a large state govt. 
agency. I know more than I want to about this. 

The "whois" command is your friend. If you're running Windows and 
don't have the "whois" command, then you ought to consider installing
the "Cygwin" package, which is freeware that gives you a lot of 
native-Unix commands, including "whois". 

Determine the machine that handed off the mail to your machine if
you run your own SMTP server, or to your ISP's mailserver otherwse.

Use "whois -h whois.arin.net <address>" to determine who really 
owns the address of that machine, and address your mail to 
"<owning-domain-name>@abuse.net". 

Don't expect much action. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964