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Subject: Re: No Tueschen here please!

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 05:00:47 07/24/98

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On July 24, 1998 at 06:36:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>Hotmail is not an anonymous remailer.

>No, but it is perhaps the #1 producer of SPAM in the world, based on the number
>of SPAM messages I receive from them.  I'm not anti-hotmail, but they obviously
>provide a level of anonymity that allows abuse by those that want to do so.  I
>don't accept mail from hotmail any longer here, rejecting *everything* from that
>site, which has cut my daily "SPAM-load" by 75%.
>
>I probably miss a few useful emails as well, of course.  But I hate to see CCC
>become cluttered with folks claiming to be someone they are not, as in the Rolf
>case...

I too added

:0
* ^From:.*hotmail.*
| /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +spam

to my procmailrc several months ago. Another advantage if CCC was a mailing
list...

Greetings,
Steffen.



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