On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:22:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If someone emails you out of the blue, they must reply to a > trivial challenge to be placed in the "confirmed" list.
I never answer to these on principle, and ban anyone who uses that spam source camouflaging as an antispam solution. I would also send a nuclear missile to the ip2location, if I could. Unfortunately, I ran out of those, and need to restock. > There's no question for them to answer, the just need to hit > reply to the challenge the very 1st time (they do not need to > resend the original message). If this is too much, you > can pre-clear them, or hand out a temporary address (TMDA > makes this easy). You can also "whitelist" certain domains. > Read the docs for more info. > > At first, I was put off by the idea that I would be creating > a small amount of extra traffic, but when you count the bytes, You're not creating extra traffic. You're sending unsolicited bulk email. > it's really nothing. I also worried it might be considered > anti-social. I've been using it since Nov 14, 2004, and so > far there has not been a single complaint from anybody. If you You won't receive a complaint from me either. I will just blackhole you for good, and that would be it. > are sick of spam and tired of "smart" filters that never quite > seem to work, give TMDA a try. You can also use TMDA along To paraphrase Alan Perlis: When someone says "I want a spam filter in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop. > with SpamAssasin, and use X-Spam-Level/X-Spam-Status as part > of your TMDA rule set. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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