On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, eckes wrote: > > Speaking of junk e-mail, I did some more work on my junkmail daemon > today. junkmail is an autoresponder I wrote to "deal with" the > ever-increasing amount of unsolicited commercial email I receive every > day. Instead of getting angry and writing a very nasty reply (usually > starting off with F*** Off & Die), I just bounce it to user junkmail on > my system, delete it and forget about it. > > junkmail extracts relevant headers, and writes the message (along with a > little note explaining how evil junkmail is) into a job queue.
Good thing! I'd really like to have that. > A cron job running as junkmail iterates through the queue and returns a > copy of the junk back to the evil perpetrator once every hour. Each job > gets 100 runs before being automatically deleted. > > The new version now keeps a database of all From addresses and Subject > lines, and randomly selects one of each every time it sends out a > message. It then fakes the From address and uses the random subject > line to make it more difficult for email spammers to automatically > filter out the return. Hopefully it will also start interesting dialogs > between the various spammers :-). > > I've even got a junkq command to list the current job queue :-) > > $ junkq > 1795-830741827 "Have you seen. . ." to Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (60 left) Have you provided a way to somewhat soften this punishing behavior? I would be punished myself if I suddenly start sending such a lot of e-mail messages! > Anyone out there interested in this? If there's enough interest, I may > get it into shape for release as a debian package. It requires creation > of an account called junkmail. The new version also requires junkmail > to be listed as a trusted user (so it can fake the from address) in the > smail config file. Sure. I'll pick up a copy as soon as you release it. Regards, M. S. ------------ Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
