Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:28:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@xtdl.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980321171134.6703A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <199803220055.AAA28457@awfulhak.org>
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On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > Is an email address going to someone@hotmail.com really an address > > to respond to? Or is it a way for someone to get valid emails > > from somoneone who has an interest in computers? > > > > I think I'll choose not to respond to any of these types of email > > addresses. > [.....] > > hotmail.com is a member of my spamsites.txt file. A large percentage > of my (X-)spam comes from there. Actually, that's probably not true, what is true is that a lot of your spam claims to come from there, but in fact never touched their system. If you use procmail, it's pretty easy to discard anything with a hotmail.com address that didn't really come from hotmail. In fact, out of about 650 spam (yes, I save all my spam for later analysis), not one came from hotmail.com. Oh, there are some halfway clever forgeries, but it's pretty obvious the forgers never actually sent themselves a piece of email from hotmail to see what the headers look like. The same goes for juno.com, usa.net, and msn.com, though not to the same degree, as I actually do have spam that really came from them. Even most of the AOL spam I've got never went through AOL. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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