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[ILUG] anti-spam thing...

[ILUG] anti-spam thing...

Waider waider at dspsrv.com
Thu Jan 3 17:34:01 GMT 2002


According to John P. Looney:
>  Is it possible/advisible to send back a message to the person that sent
> you a spam ?
> 
>  I'm thinking something that looks like a mail bounce, but to a human
> looks like a "sorry, but your mail looks like spam. If it's important, 
> checkout the following reasons it was spam, and try send it again" type
> response...
> 
> Kate

Problem with this is that for actual spammers, you've just validated your
address. I tend to filter stuff but not bounce it, and sort it by just leafing
through the subject lines. Any spam that actually gets to my mailbox I tend
to complain to the ISP or upstream provider about.

Cheers,
Waider.
-- 
waider at dspsrv.com / Chances are I'm not at home right now.




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