[Lowfer] spamming

Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:19:34 -0600 (CST)

Hi, Gary,

Thanks -- that is a good idea and bears looking into.  I'm using PINE as 
an email client and could either add those rules there or into the 
sendmail.cf ruleset (ugly, but better).

Thanks for your suggestions!

73
Eric

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, DTX wrote:

> As long as you don't have friends in aol or de land, that will work
> reasonably well.  I took the approach 180 degrees from yours, i.e. I use the
> Message Rules to take messages from a source like Lower from mailman and put
> them in a lowfer directory.  Same for qrp-l , psk31 and a couple of other
> reflctors.  Then whatever is left falls thru into the DTX directory and is
> usually SPAM.  I normally read the mail 2 or 3 times during the day, find 7
> to 12 new pieces in the DTX directory and it is easy to scan the from column
> and usually delete it all.  The replies from real people stand out amazingly
> well.  And a quick glance at the subject line will remove all doubt ;-)
> 
> For those who do a lot of net surfing and get hundreds of spam emails a day,
> well, maybe this would not work so well.  Just another way that works for
> me.  Also, nothing ever "auto opens" and plays itself.  Period.  My email
> client of least resistance (not choice ;-) is Outlook Express.
> 
> Gary WA6DTX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric KD5UWL" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:49 AM
> Subject: [Lowfer] spamming
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Several weeks ago I signed up for the blacksheep LF reflector.  Even
> > before receiving actual reflector mail I started getting spam.  I've
> > considered employing some sort of filter, but that is not my style.
> >
> > Instead, I've merely directed my sendmail daemon to reject email from such
> > pseudo-ISPs as aol.com, geocities.com, verizon.net, domains ending in .de
> > or .tw, etc, etc.  These are all domains that are only good for spamming.
> >
> > I will be tuning this over time.  I apologize in advance if any of you who
> > mail me directly receive any ugly automated messages from my mail server.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Eric
> >
> >
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