I'd never respond to a spammer in any way... there may be a few honest ones who'll take you off their list, but I'll wager that most of them just p[ut a check mark next to your name in a box marked, "Another Live One." If you want to send a useful email in response to spam, imho it would have to go to the isp whose smtp server first handled the mail. I believe you'd have to extract that information from the header for your script, and also include the header itself in your reply for it to be useful.
I'd love to somehow convince everyone I know that text email is the Way-of-Wisdom, but by now there are too many who like to include little animated doggies, snowbeings, Christmas trees with blinking lights, and that sorta thing. I'm afraid this is not going away. Kids especially are going for html email in a big way, and they will soon be old enough to be interested in posting stuff to us adults. That'll be the end of that... Jean-Pierre Smith wrote: >Pure html mail seems to be extraordinarily loaded with spam. Advice is >needed on what to do with html mail. Here is the story: > >On advice received on this list, I have created a *pure-html mail filter >which filters these messages (and the link to the html attachment which >emailer automatically creates on receipt) to a "html-messages" folder >which is intended to be a pre-trash folder (using the "shred messages" >script). > >It works (I can relay the how-to, received from contributors on this list >on request). > >I have added to that an automated message stating that html messages are >automatically trashed in my machine (close to, but not really true, at >this moment). The honest intention was to advise genuine people to resend >the message to me, because my intention remains to trash automatically >html messages together with their html enclosures. > >Was that a wrong idea ? > >My filter worked and keeps on sending dozens of messages to porn sites, >mainly from my CompuServe account (I just set up the preferences so that, >at least, the replies go through the same mail account as the incoming >message). Am I giving the wrong signal to thess porn sites by letting >Emailer to automatically reply to them a polite denial of their message ? > >Can I improve the filtering to only reply to genuine messages ? > >TIA for opinions and experience > >-- >Jean-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
