Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:21:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Click on to meet someone you Click with Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104241220270.3180-100000@pi.yip.org> In-Reply-To: <3AE58AF6.4682DCB6@mitre.org>
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > "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. /etc/mail/access -- Bob <melange@yip.org> | "Villain, I have done thy mother" - Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act IV, scene II To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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