[ILUG] anti-spam thing...

[Jerry Walsh]

At 17:47 03/01/02 +0000, you wrote:
>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.


I used do the same, but after awhile your address gets into the hands of 
too many
spammers or so it seems - nowadays reporting each spam i get is way too 
much hassle
for what its worth, i use a procmail simple procmail filter which dumps all 
mail
sent to me which does not have one of my addresses (or lists i'm subscribed 
to) in
its To: or Cc: lines... For safety i also allow through mail on which the 
From: header
contains domains which i may receive BCC'd mail or on domains which i 
regularly get
mail from (i.e. iol/esatclear/indigo/eircom etc.)  - It works extremely 
well....
But to answer your question i'd opt not to notify the sender the mail was
filtered/dumped/whatever.

Jerry.