Where should I send Junkmail complaints?
Most networks reserve the Abuse and Postmaster addresses for e-mail problems. There are a few networks that have special addresses to be used such as Mailspam, Fraud or Mail-abuse. A network will usually list their complaint address someplace on their Web site. If you are not sure, send your complaint to Postmaster.
Once you look at the header and get the address of the server that the email originated from, you can mail a complaint to the server to let them know that one of their users is spamming. Please remember that most Networks including Avalon Networks, Inc. have a strict no spamming policy and the spammer is at fault, not the Network Administrator. Most networks reserve the Abuse and Postmaster addresses for e-mail problems. Each network will usually list their complaint address someplace on their Web site. If you are not sure, send your complaint to Postmaster. In this example, you would mail your complaint to: postmaster@real.spammer.com Unfortunately there are a few networks allowing spammers to continue spamming from their servers. Groups such as MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) have put together lists of these known spam-friendly networks and make their list public. This means that other networks can deny spam-friendly networks access to certain parts of the Internet and protect th
