Report Spam

Spam is a continuous irritant and the only remedy to this problem is to first receive it and then complain it. As a result of this action Spammers will lose their access to the Internet. They will also be further penalized by being asked to pay for violating the ISP acceptable usage policy. Moreover the spammers also adapt persistently and they do it very fast.

What one needs to do in order to report spam is to find out the wrongdoer and complain against him. You can also write out your complaint. To write such a complaint is unfortunately not an easy matter as it takes up a lot of time. While reporting you have to provide the email header of the spam mail that you have received. The header of the email has the routing information. It contains the history of the particular email, from where the email has been sent from, to the person whom it is addressed to and the process by which it got to the destination.

You can also report spam by yourself. You need to report the spam exactly from the place where it has originated. This is quite a difficult proposition. You need to find out the exact server from where the mail had come from. These are the following steps involved to send an effective yet polite complaint email.

* You have to find out the email header of the spam mail that you have received.
* You need o find out the origin of the IP or even the DNS Name will do. This is quite a complicated task but it is possible for you to find details of this task.
* Also search for the email address of the IP or DNS that is underlying.

You also need to know which is and which is not to be reported as spam. All the bulk mails that you receive is not spam. They might be commercial mails also. Emails that are unsolicited and comes in bulk are considered to be spam. It is also not the type of mail that you have readily agreed to receive. If the recipient agrees to receive mails such as these then it is not considered to be spam.

All bulk emails are spam. If there is some correspondence, inquiry about the posts that have been made to a website or a newsgroup is not considered to be spam even if the content is commercial. You will often find mails with the wrong name. If a mail does not subscribe to any subject known or understood by the recipient it can be safely assumed that the mail is spam.

One should report mail that is spam and not report unnecessarily. Misreporting spam is harmful. These result in the reports of spam controlling organizations not being taken seriously. Moreover this is unfair and unjust for the account that has been reported against. This would cause it undue termination or suspension.

Spam eats up the bandwidth that too with the money that you are paying. Users should report spam as and when necessary but also have to keep the criteria in mind before reporting against the account that is sending you the bulk mails.