On Thursday 21 June 2007, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:16:59PM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>> I for one, am one of those people who understand that it's impossible to
>> completely rid myself of it while I'm on the list, so I do the best I
>> can to keep it under control.
>
>Frankly, between SpamAssassin and some procmail traps, I don't SEE most of
>the spam that comes in. I've had the same domain and E-Mail address set
>within that domain since around 1993. Sure, I'm losing bandwidth to it,
>but I'm not going to forego the utility of either this and other mailing
>lists, or the convenience of contact a long-established and well-known
>mail address gives me and those who want to contact me.
>
>Nevertheless, I WOULD like to run into some of these spammers in a dark
>alley while I'm on my way home from a ball game...with my Louisville
>Slugger...
That is usually temporary Dave, unless one session while kneecaps heal is
enough to convince them to find another means of employment. Personally, I
prefer the shotgun & shovel approach, although the Slugger doesn't make as
much noise even when depressing a skull by 4". {8-[
However, considering that my email addy has only changed once since back in
the middle 90's, the 200-300 that comes in here a week, and that gets trimmed
to one or 2 by sa & procmail, isn't that bad.
What we really really need is someway to handle the spam from the yahoo
servers, difficult because it comes from the same machines that service the
mailing lists they carry. That right there would trim my incoming weekly
spam total by 50 percent or more.
>--
> Dave Ihnat
> President, DMINET Consulting, Inc.
> dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
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Cheers, Gene
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<xtifr> wow, I think I just used libtool to solve a problem -- somebody
help me! :>
<luca> xtifr, STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD
