On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Hello all;
> I am receiving way too much spam these days.
> Normally I just delete and ignore, but the attached leads me to believe
> I'm gonna get even more. The implications are scary.
>
> Ok. What methods actually work against such unsolicited subscriptions ?
> Aside from shutting down that email address that is. :(
I use procmail along with a pretty good starting "cookbook" that I
got from http://alcor.concordia.ca/topics/email/auto/procmail/. Some
of the recipes were a bit strict, so I had to disable one or two
filters, but most are quite effective. Any time I get spammed, I just
insert another recipe (simple regexp) to prevent it from getting
through again. In addition, procmail works as an autoresponder to send
a message back to the sender... or into the darkness of a /dev/null
somewhere if it's a fake address.
I use it on my own Linux machine, but procmail will exist on most any
'nix machine, so if your ISP allows you access via a shell account, you
can use all the procmail stuff there.
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