Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:29:40 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 14:21:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 14, 1999 at 13:41:54, Bas Hamstra wrote: > >>When you get spam email, you hit the delete button, right? I wonder what would >>happen if everybody first clicked "reply" before "delete". Wouldn't that be >>something to promote? :) >Mine pretty much automatically goes into the garbage can without my even seeing >it. There is a built in filter for MSIE that does this. Probably about 1/3 >gets missed, which I delete by hand. I think responding would probably just >waste time and not really cause any problems for the spammers. 99% of the time, hitting "R" will get you _another_ email, because 99% of the time, the spammers use a bogus return address. So you send it and it bounces right back a second time. If you run linux, check out procmail. It works.
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