Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:17:26 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Click on to meet someone you Click with Message-ID: <3AE58AF6.4682DCB6@mitre.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104230750240.5047-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <3AE3753C.E82BCB03@eproduct.org> <20010422201232.A93750@cec.wustl.edu> <02dd01c0cb94$0ccc7c60$931576d8@inethouston.net>
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"David W. Chapman Jr." wrote: > > > Also remember that a great deal of spam (at least most of the stuff that > > comes to me) has my name as a greeting in the body, or in the subject > > line. It would be trivial to automate the process of adding > > [freebsd-stable] to the front of the subject line when the message is > > sent to freebsd-stable@freebsd.org. This would have us all working extra > > for no reason. > > I find that the most effective way to deal with spam is look at the headers > and mail abuse@ every server in the list. I find that most isps take care > of it(or atleast say they do) I think someone mentioned this. Once people > started to get their accounts deleted a few times, they might stop it > One thing I've found that is fairly effective is to "bounce" spams back as undeliverable. A lot of times the spammers just ignore the bounce (they get 1000s of them no doubt) but there is a chance that they will take your apparently dead address off of the list. The big danger is compltely broken spam agents that consider ANY response a good response. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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