From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-06-07T11:31:10+09:00
Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet

On Jun 6, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Jun 6, 2009, at 15:34, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 6, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Charles Calvert wrote:
>>
>>>> I manage the Google Group and I try to delete all the SPAM I come
>>>> across, so anything that can reduce it is helpful to me.
>>>
>>> On Usenet, there are some options:
>>>
>>> 1. Complain to the ISP of the offender.
>>
>> Yes and this is fine if Usenet folks complain about the message  
>> before it was gated.  Again, please do not complain about a message  
>> on Ruby Talk after it was gated as you are then complaining about  
>> my email address.
>
> Leaving the NNTP Received headers in will help us trace spam to its  
> origin.

Fred, do you happen to know if I could legally do that?  Are they  
speced the same?  I will look when I have a less crazy day, but was  
just curious if you would know.

I wonder why they felt the need to fake them with the original gateway…

James Edward Gray II