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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:51:27 -0500
From:      Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cialis etc.
Message-ID:  <20050215235126.GA98422@keyslapper.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20050215181546.02588898@pop.hbs.edu>
References:  <5.0.0.25.2.20050215181546.02588898@pop.hbs.edu>

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On 02/15/05 06:19 PM, Richard Meyer sat at the `puter and typed:
> I've been inundated by hundreds of Cialis, Taladafil, etc spam e-mails.=
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> More than one hundred requests to unsubscribe (I never subscribed to begi=
n=20
> with) have gone un-implemented.  What can I do ?

Apparently you posted something to a newsgroup or a list that's
archived on the web.  Even posting to this one will eventually get you
in their lists.  The spammers harvest email addresses in any number of
ways, including crawling web sites and newsgroups.

Don't bother unsubscribing.  There have been a few informal
experiments that indicate these aren't actually used to remove
addresses from mailing lists, but to verify the validity of emails,
and are usually proliferated even faster.

What can you do?  Install SpamAssassin
(ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin) and make sure it's well trained and
properly configured.  You might even do well to set up a honeypot
address to keep your bayes database up to date.

Other than that, abandon the email address.  I'm shutting a whole
domain down in another week or so to give it a few months to be purged
out of those lists.

And forget about the CAN-Spam laws.  They're bull.  They give you no
rights, and some think the spam problem has actually gotten worse
since it took effect.

Good luck.

Lou
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