Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:00:03 +0100 From: "Ian Vaudrey" <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk> To: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Spam killing. (Was:Re: COME SEE THE HOTTEST..) Message-ID: <199704272101.WAA01922@mail.nemko.ltd.uk>
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You might want to take a look at http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/check.html for some thoughts on these lines. - Ian ---------- > From: Jay D. Nelson <jdn@qiv.com> > To: Thomas D. Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Spam killing. (Was:Re: COME SEE THE HOTTEST..) > Date: 27 April 1997 17:44 > > See www.sendmail.org. They have information on spam. Procmail is your > immediate answer and there is a collection of filters at sendmail.org, I > believe. > > Unfortunately, with procmail, you've already wasted the bandwidth. I'm > thinking of building some sendmail rules to can them on our mail > exchanger. I'd also like some rules to confine outbound mail to our > domain. If anyone has ideas, or has done this, please let me know. > > Thanks. > > -- Jay > > On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > ->This is somewhat off the subject, but, is impacting us. > -> > ->I see an increase of postings of "sex-vertisements" and other > ->advertisements from various sources. The above "sex-vertisement" > ->appeared on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce. I seem to be > ->receiving an increasing amount of advertisement e-mail addressed to > ->me. Sometimes, I receive 10 copies of the same message, daily. > ->Most of these seem to come from <someone>@savetrees.com. > -> > ->Most of these mail messages originators seem to be able to hide their > ->ID well enough that I cannot send a reply. > -> > ->I have tried replying to "webmaster@<whatever>" and "root@<whatever" > ->in an attempt to get someone to stop this, but, many times, > ->that mail is returned as undeliverable. > -> > ->Looking at the source of mail thru savetrees.com, there is a > ->reply address, abuse@savetrees.com. I get an automated response from > ->there. But, it may do some good to ping them? > -> > ->Is there any way to determine a proper address to reply to these > ->unsolicited and sometimes offensive messages? > -> >
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