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Subject: Re: About Spam

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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