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Subject: Re: Mail spam, sigh...
In-Reply-To: <199711191828.LAA05551@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 19, 97 11:28:34 am"
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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In reply to Nate Williams who wrote:
> > If any of you gets a message back from my system claiming you 
> > should be shot or something to that extent, well, I'm sorry.
> > The amount of JUNKmail recently has demanded that I enable
> > my hysteric mail filter again, and its pretty harsh (one
> > unsolicited mail, and that doamin is toast).
> > Sorry for any inconvinience, but the filter stays this time...
> 
> What I've done is setup my filter to only accept email from known
> mailing lists, etc..., and also accept mail directly addressed to me.
> Everything else goes into 'junk' which is 99.99% of the junk mail that I
> receive, with .01% of it not being junk.  Every once in a while I go
> look in my junk folder for 'valid' email, but otherwise it tends to do
> it's job well, and still not get rid of 'previously unknown by desired'
> email.

Well, I do the same thing, but have added rules to reject mail from
a list of hostile sites/domans. I've encountered lots of mail that's
addressed directly to my mail address, and that is stopped effectively
now, I only get one junk email, and they are on the list :), together
with sites on the "official" spam lists

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
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