On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Gregory L. Hering wrote: =>Dear Spam-haters (on Linux RH8), [Lots of stuff deleted...] => I wanted a system that was low maintenance so I wanted some =>automated features. The (now optional) reply informed you that if you =>forwarded this to 'me@myserver' it would pass because of a signature in =>the message and I would get an e-mail with subject 'REQUEST FRIEND =>STATUS'. If I replied in the affirmative then the program would add =>them to the list and they could send me mail. If a spammer actually put =>their real e-mail address in the headers and they got the message and =>forwarded it to me, I would just delete the message. If it became a =>problem because they had the signature, I just change the signature in =>the program. If they got smart, they could automate replies and spam me =>anyway, but this is war! Isn't it? => => Another problem is that my program pops the server at 1 minute =>intervals. My e-mail client pops the server at 15 minute intervals. =>If my client pops the server in the period after the spam is sent but =>before the despammer cleans the account then I get a little spam anyway. =>It needs to be a proxy server. Anyway, it's been turned off for the =>last two months because I've been looking for a job and I just didn't =>want to mess with possible job offers being deleted. And I haven't been =>advancing the work on the program during this time. => => There is probably an existing program like 'fetchmail' or =>'SpamAssassin' (or maybe even qPopper) that could be set to this mode =>but I just don't know of it. Anyone...? => => As someone mentioned earlier, the only effective way to stop spam is =>to block it at a server. This is my attempt. I don't think there is =>really a good solution yet. It should be illegal, like littering, and =>spammers should be fined, but that would only work for US based =>companies. What about countries that hate us? They probably pay people =>to generate fake traffic. We need some real creative thinking and a =>coordinated effort. Well Greg. I run sendmail-8.12.6 + spamassassin and almost all of my spam is either filtered out or rejected outright by sendmail. There already exist some good whitelist managers out there. They are not an alternative for most people. You can do even better than I do by running milter software on sendmail. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo@syslang.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
