On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 03:08:46AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > Why not run your own mail server ? I use Exim (a Sendmail replacement) > on several servers. I refuse incoming mails where the sender's HELO / > EHLO does not match the sender's IP host name, because that - for me - > eliminates 90% or more of spam and I absolutely detest spam. Not everyone is in a position to run their own server. Nor should people be required to do so if they don't care to take on the burden of doing so. > Discardable sub-domain names for mailing list subscriptions also helps. > (currently on my third change for this list ... u61) Why? I've been on this list for years all using the same address, which I might add is the same address I have been using since the late 80s. > Having spare domains, control over the DNS and assigning unique email > addresses for different purposes means you can simply bloke a > compromised email address whilst continuing to receive emails from > everyone else. I've been doing this for about 10 years with great > success. Waste of time and resources. Learn how to properly handle email and none of this nonsense is necessary. > Spam is a USA invention created by someone called Wallace? about 15? > years ago. It is now a world-wide pest. The question marks indicate that you indeed don't know what you are talking about. > No Centos fan should have to depend on other's email services for daily > communications, so do consider operating your own mail server. Can you please stop with the sweeping statements that are without merit until you fully understand the problem at hand? John -- Simply put, it's time. Time for me. And time for Chicago to move on. -- Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago since 1989, announcing that he would not seek re-election, New York Times, 8 September 2010
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