procmail will do it. I've been filtering those little blocks of #s and letters successfully for a while now. Add this little recipe to your cookbook:
:0 * ^Subject:.*\ [a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9].* /dev/null michael stone university of texas at austin mechanical engineering multimedia admin etc 3.132 ph: 471.9657 dp: 478.4388 #2153 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Lawrence J. Huang wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > > > Does everyone know how to complain to spammers' ISPs? If all of us > > complain, they might do something. (Yeah right.) > > If someone doesn't know how, I'll write up or link to a tutorial. > > > > The idea to limit posts to subscribers is probably better for just > > avoiding spam. > > I've had problems with "these" spammers before... they use open SMTP > servers to send out their mails and obviously spoof their originating > addresses. Complaining to "their ISPs" wouldn't do much good, and there's > virtually an infinite number of alternatives for these spammers if one > SMTP server gets blocked. > > If you've noticed, though, almost all of the e-mails sent by these > spammers have some sort of funky 5-6 letter block at the end of their > subject lines, so maybe it could be filtered with procmail? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
