[TriLUG] Report on spam -- most comes from putting your e-mail address onweb sites

[John Beimler]

Jim Ray wrote:

>Good stuff.  I'm also thinking about a 3 way handshake for email.
>  
>
nothing personal, but thats a piss poor idea, unless you only want to 
get email from people who are willing to spend the time on that.  I've 
hit a couple people whom I was trying to help out who had a challenge 
system.  I deleted the challenge, and ignored them.  I don't have time 
to respond to bots or click on unsolicited links.  In fact heres my 
handy procmail rule so that I don't even see them any more:

:0
* ^X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA
/dev/null


Use spamassasin, making someone do work to be sure you don't get spam 
isn't a good idea.

Peace.

john