[TriLUG] Had it with worm

[Brent Verner]

[2003-09-24 20:12] Jeremy Portzer said:
| On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:50, Mike Mueller wrote:
| > I am thinking about retiring my email account that's getting all the worm 
| > crap.  There's no slowing it.  Anybody else considering such a move?  I'm not 
| > in the procmail/fetchmail/getmail crowd (yet) so I can't purge based on size 
| > at the ISP's buffer or filter on incoming.  
| 
| I would recommend you use fetchmail to bring the mail to your local
| workstation, and then run spamassassin to filter out all the spams and
| worm stuff.  It's not that difficult to set up -- LOTS of howto's out
| there -- and it's so relieving to have almost all of your email be worm-
| and spam-free.

ISTM that there is a business opportunity here, seeing how /I/
haven't yet found the time to spam-protect my own personal mail
accounts/server :-\

I would _gladly_ pay $50 for a script that took no more than 14 
minutes to install and configure that would block/quarantine spam.

Certainly I'm not the only person that can't find time to scratch
the itch-that-is-spam.

4 billion spam and counting,
  b

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