RE: SPAM: quantities

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 17:18:00 MDT

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    I don't use sendmail, but if I see something I'll let you know. Someone else
    here will know, anyway.

    I only advocate changing email addresses because I've done it a couple of
    times, and it was surprisingly painless. It wasn't my choice; I had a
    succession of ISPs go under. OTOH, it was sufficiently annoying eventually
    that I've now got an email address from someone other than my ISP.

    Emlyn

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2003 12:23 AM
    > To: 'extropians@extropy.org'
    > Subject: RE: SPAM: quantities
    >
    >
    >
    > In terms of preferences in allocation of time, I'd rather spend it
    > improving the SpamBouncer Filtering files rather than wrestling with
    > sendmail configuration files simply bouncing stuff to the old email
    > address (neither of these processes I am overly familiar with and so
    > both have relatively high learning curves). That might
    > benefit everyone
    > who uses Spambouncer -- though I suspect its long term
    > effectiveness may
    > be limited and I'll have to finish implementing a Bayesian solution.
    >
    > One also has the problem of having to change the email addresses for
    > multiple mailing lists that one may have to do some research on to see
    > how many one is a member of.
    >
    > But I would agree that the this might be a reasonable course
    > of action.
    > Alternatively one could get a "free" email account (Hotmail, etc.) and
    > let the ISP deal with much of the problem.
    >
    > But if you ever run across an example of how to fix sendmail
    > to do what
    > you are discussing please send it to me.
    >
    > Robert
    >
    >
    > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
    >
    > > At some point, you really need to change your email address. It's
    > > surprisingly painless, give it a go :-)
    > >
    > > btw, is it possible, if you are running your own
    > mailserver, to create
    > > yourself a new address, kill the old one, and put your new
    > address in the
    > > error message that your mailserver produces when people try
    > to use the old
    > > address? That way, humans who send you an email to the
    > wrong account will
    > > get a message telling them the address you should be using,
    > while spambots
    > > will have no clue.
    > >
    > > Emlyn
    > >
    > > > -----Original Message-----
    > > > From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.com]
    > > > Sent: Monday, 8 September 2003 3:54 AM
    > > > To: Extropy List
    > > > Subject: SPAM: quantities
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > Looks like I'm currently running about 150+ SPAM messages
    > > > per day at 0.7+ MB in total size. And that doesn't include
    > > > the not-so-few (perhaps 10-20/day) that manage to sneak past
    > > > the filters.
    > > >
    > > > R.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >

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