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Re: Almost off topic



On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> "Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> 
> >  Spam export from the US is getting more and more "interesting".
> 
> [skipped]
> 
> >  I want to do something about it. One
> >  direct thing, that relates to Linux, is a list of blacklisted hosts, that
> >  originate spam, and instructions on how to set up a Linux mailer to bounce
> >  them automatically (or delete them).
> 
> I have such a filter on plasma-gate, but have to say that lately, the time spent
> on maintaining the steadily-growing reject list has begun to be comparable to

--snip--

> "deny all" instead of "allow all", so to say. Then you add addresses of your
> friends and maillists you're subscribed to to an equivalent of "hosts.allow" and
> bounce all the rest to the sender asking to add a special keyword to a header.
> If someone really wants to contact you, he'll do that. And spammers won't bother
> themselves reading the bounces.

Looks like I'll do that. And I have to set the mail to bounce, so they
send it again, with the cookie, if they forget the first time around. What
did you use ? procmail + sendmail / qmail ?

Peter