From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 21 14:46:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDE1837B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 10337 invoked by uid 100); 21 Feb 2001 22:46:44 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14996.17748.832610.157775@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:46:44 -0600 To: abgoeree@uwnet.nl Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: ["abgoeree@uwnet.nl"@shell.i-sphere.com: REJECTED MAIL]???????? In-Reply-To: <20010221111149.D929@mandark.attica.home> References: <20010220230057.A57762@mandark.attica.home> <14994.61220.340488.445773@guru.mired.org> <20010221111149.D929@mandark.attica.home> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andre Goeree types: > > Rather than install a filter, get a good automated complaint system, > > and add a "complain" button to your mailer. If you do it often enough, > > you'll get your address on the "complains about spam" blacklist, which > > will start killill the spam at the source. That's a lot better than > > killing it after it's gotten to your system. > Is there a "complaints about SPAM" blacklist? I didn't know that. > Sounds like a list i want to get on:) > Would mail/adcomplain do the trick? Well, some of the SPAM packages/sites (those that help produce it, not those that help fight it) have lists of email addresses that are known to generate complaints if you spam them. > Hmm, sometimes i get spammed via mailing lists. I can only > guess that the spammers don't have my direct mail address, > but reacting to these messages would give them the address for sure... Well, they may have it and some filter is getting it. On the other hand, I sometimes see the same spam multiple times - to both one of my mail addresses and to one or more of the lists I subscribe to. > > I always wonder what would happen if some popular mailer turned up > > with a "Complain about SPAM" button. I suspect it would be more > > effective at getting rid of SPAM than all the filters and blocks put > > together. > That sure sounds like a good default feature:) Yeah, but considering how active MS is about fixing - or even advising people - about what a security hole ActiveX and JavaScript are, I wouldn't expect it to happen. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message