discuss: LDP Anti Spam Proposal
Subject:
Re: LDP Anti Spam Proposal
From:
Rachel Collins ####@####.####
Date:
25 Sep 2002 16:11:44 -0000
Message-Id: <20020925110933.056df79e.katryel@asgardsrealm.net>
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:15:44 -0600
Charles Curley ####@####.#### wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:26:53PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:50:33PM +0200, Stein Gjoen wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Spam is a continuously increasing problem and I am
> > > therefore urging all authors here to mangle email
> > > addresses. Many
>
> >
> > There is another point of view and that's not to let spammers
> > inconvenience people. If you mangle your address it means
> > that someone can't just email you with a single click --they
> > have to unmangle the address first.
> >
> > Instead of letting spammers win one should fight back. I
> > think one should automatically report all spam to their ISP
> > and make sure that their ISP takes action on it. My ISP does
> > and my efforts have resulted in a number of spammers' ISP
> > accounts being canceled. I report spam with a single
> > keystroke which is a macro to send a form letter to my ISP
> > with the spam(s) attached. If most people (and ISPs) did
> > this, we would have little spam.
>
> Would you care to write a HOW-TO?
The Anti-Spam HOWTO... info on spamassassin, razor, reporting
spammers, blocking spam... that would be useful, IMHO. If Stein
doesn't want to, I'll volunteer, just as soon as I finish up the
major portions of the one I'm currently working on.
>
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