From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 23 22:13:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C157495B for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@noos.larseighner.com) Received: from emailserver2.asdf456.com (emailserver2.asdf456.com [72.18.207.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89B0ED3C for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 14043 invoked by uid 0); 23 Mar 2013 22:06:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO noos.larseighner.com) (71.20.75.102) by emailserver2.asdf456.com with SMTP; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:06:30 -0700 Received: by noos.larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@noos.larseighner.com; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:10:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:10:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.larseighnerhome.com To: CyberLeo Kitsana Subject: Re: Don't replay to spam In-Reply-To: <514DEE3D.7040705@cyberleo.net> Message-ID: References: <1364019611.4783.84.camel@archlinux> <514DEE3D.7040705@cyberleo.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Ralf Mardorf , FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:13:12 -0000 On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > On 03/23/2013 01:20 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> The original "trying freeBSD 9.1 [...]" mail is spam, since the original >> message had a "signature" about face lifting or something like that. >> >> Take a look at >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-March/249992.html >> >> Once you visited the page from the link in the signature, you even can't >> leave this page. >> >> It's hard to train spam filters, if people reply to spam. > > That spam sig appears to be NetZero appending advertisements to > legitimate outgoing messages. I doubt the OP has much control over that > behaviour; especially if that happens to be their ISP. > > I agree, but what the OP can do is use a proper sig which begins in the first column with a hyphen followed by another hyphen, a space, and a newline. That will not prevent the service provider from appending the ad, but it will make it possible for many (most? all?) mail readers to hide the sig (and everything after it) if the user so desires. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266