[TriLUG] Report on spam -- most comes from putting your e-mailaddress onweb sites

[Jim Ray]

I figure a good friends list will take care of eliminating the 3 way
handshake for desired email.  The rest, well, I just assume not here
from them.  I don't need to grow my @#$% another 3 inches and am happy
with it just the way it is.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Beimler [mailto:john at radiomind.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:33 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Report on spam -- most comes from putting your
e-
> mailaddress onweb sites
> 
> Jim Ray wrote:
> 
> >Good stuff.  I'm also thinking about a 3 way handshake for email.
> >
> >
> nothing personal, but thats a piss poor idea, unless you only want to
> get email from people who are willing to spend the time on that.  I've
> hit a couple people whom I was trying to help out who had a challenge
> system.  I deleted the challenge, and ignored them.  I don't have time
> to respond to bots or click on unsolicited links.  In fact heres my
> handy procmail rule so that I don't even see them any more:
> 
> :0
> * ^X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA
> /dev/null
> 
> 
> Use spamassasin, making someone do work to be sure you don't get spam
> isn't a good idea.
> 
> Peace.
> 
> john
> 
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