Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:45:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Anti-SPAM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014192800.225A-100000@bsampley>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Greetings, I've been using FBSD for over 1 year as my primary OS (I only keep Mickey$oft around for games). My ISP (best.com) also uses FBSD for their servers. Recently I have been receiving an increasing amount of SPAM-mail. What can I do as a user and what can I advise Best (hopefully they'll listen) to prevent SPAM from being delivered to my account? I know if I really want to I can use procmail to 'filter' my mail, but that means I have to waste the bandwidth and my time D/L'ing to send unwanted messages to /dev/null (FYI: I'm currently using fetchmail to D/L my mail). That seems like a major waste of computing resources. Is there a better way (short of cutting the phone line to my modem and closing my account)? Is there anyway to hide my username and hostname while using internet resources? Do I have to remove my email address from my .sig file and stop sending questions to FBSD? FYI: I'm only subscribed to -current. Signed Frustrated Bits and Bytes! - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNEQuant2O8KJtMdBAQHyzQP/VQ8jDx157a+ivTAN0X/RDueOnWJVm9Mb Fw5fDno3PfjdzzIgc06M1D/WNtg8G/Pt+SLBcOJnhPRp295c6wzrNdpztvqO0w7i sYko+oBSKXYExq7+LURVrj5uJCF/Mnpb2e3cZvvs6Zw5HtCmQ25rR1ePUiz5rEV9 9u1yekkLUlE= =+U/4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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