Spam Reporting Tips Revisited

Spam is an increasingly unpleasant fact of life for Internet users. Every time you fill out forms on the web, post to Usenet groups, or give out your email address, you're potentially exposing yourself to spammers. Even after taking all the right precautions, some spam still gets through.

So what can you do? If you're getting offensive spam directed to your UO email account, notify spam@uoregon.edu within a day or so of receiving it. When you do, you'll need to include the full header of the spammer's message so we can track the source of the spam and take action.

If you're not sure how to enable full headers in your email client, see the "Enabling Full Headers' site at http://micro.uoregon.edu/fullheaders/ There you'll find detailed instructions for enabling full headers in Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape, Mulberry, Outlook and Outlook Express, Pine, Webmail, and Mac OS X Mail.

More Information Resources:

1. Reporting spam to government agencies: http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/fall2002/spamreport.html
2. "Open Proxy Servers: A Growing Source of Spam": http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/fall2002/openproxy.html
3. "Coping With Spam": http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/summer1999/coping_w_spam.html
4. "Reporting UOnet Related Abuse": http://cc.uoregon.edu/abuse/