On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:30:46AM -0400, adam morley wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:03:50PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote:
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> > Honestly, I'm not looking for a 100% spam-free environment because
> > that's next to impossible without blocking other legit mail.
>
> seriously look into procmail's weighting capabilties. you know all
> those mails that have like 20 spaces and then a number? you can catch
> those with procmail....
>
I will...
> >
> > I don't even care if outblaze.com takes over all the mail servers in
> > the world.
> >
> > What get's my goat is that someone (and outblaze.com tops the list)
> > intercepts mails and/or pretends to be someone else. Here is the header
> > from the Java Developer Connection Newsletter which I subscribe from.
> > It's even got a "Precedence: Junk" in it. Can you believe that?
>
> that would make me think the ppl who made it were knowing you might not want it.
>and that they arent spammers.
>
> >
> > I may be wrong because I'm totally unfamiliar with techniques used to
> > forge "this and that" in spam mails. So where do you folks think the
> > message below came from? sun.com or outblaze.com?
>
> sun.com. its a mail they'll send out to promote their javaone
> conferences. honestly, i dont know why you consider it spam. you
> probably filled out some survey somewhere, and so on.
>
Right, I did subscribe from JDC. But that's not what I'm not complaining
about. It's the go-between that is outblaze.com plus the fact that I
have received countless promotions from JDC but this is the first time
that the headers contained:
"From: JDC.C&[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
"Precedence: junk"
It has always been
"From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
and no "Precedence: junk"
> could add:
>
> * ^Precedence: Junk
> /dev/null
> or ~/mail/INBOXfiltered
>
> but honestly, i think its a legit mail from sun. you could always ask to
>unsubscribe. they may or may not honor such a request tho. might have to get a
>little pissy.
>
Yes, I guess the next step to take will be to ask JDC if they did
send the junk mail.
Thanks for the tips.
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