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From: "Ian Vaudrey" <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk>
To: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
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Subject: Re: Spam killing. (Was:Re: COME SEE THE HOTTEST..)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:00:03 +0100
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You might want to take a look at
http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/check.html for some
thoughts on these lines.

- Ian

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> From: Jay D. Nelson <jdn@qiv.com>
> To: Thomas D. Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Spam killing. (Was:Re: COME SEE THE HOTTEST..)
> Date: 27 April 1997 17:44
> 
> See www.sendmail.org. They have information on spam. Procmail is your
> immediate answer and there is a collection of filters at
sendmail.org, I
> believe.
> 
> Unfortunately, with procmail, you've already wasted the bandwidth.
I'm
> thinking of building some sendmail rules to can them on our mail
> exchanger. I'd also like some rules to confine outbound mail to our
> domain. If anyone has ideas, or has done this, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Jay
> 
> On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> 
> ->This is somewhat off the subject, but, is impacting us.
> ->
> ->I see an increase of postings of "sex-vertisements" and other
> ->advertisements from various sources.  The above "sex-vertisement"
> ->appeared on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce.  I seem to be
> ->receiving an increasing amount of advertisement e-mail addressed to
> ->me.  Sometimes, I receive 10 copies of the same message, daily.
> ->Most of these seem to come from <someone>@savetrees.com.
> ->
> ->Most of these mail messages originators seem to be able to hide
their
> ->ID well enough that I cannot send a reply.
> ->
> ->I have tried replying to "webmaster@<whatever>" and
"root@<whatever"
> ->in an attempt to get someone to stop this, but, many times,
> ->that mail is returned as undeliverable.
> ->
> ->Looking at the source of mail thru savetrees.com, there is a
> ->reply address, abuse@savetrees.com.  I get an automated response
from
> ->there.  But, it may do some good to ping them?
> ->
> ->Is there any way to determine a proper address to reply to these
> ->unsolicited and sometimes offensive messages?
> ->
>