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Re: [Asrg] Anti-spam work, a writeup



On 2004-06-12 13:38:55 -0700, ajv-oarybolive at vsta.org wrote:
> We've been using an anti-spam system here for more than a year now, and are
> getting excellent results--it's a variant of the "one address per
> correspondent" approach.

A note on the implementation:

You wrote:

| So instead what I did was to connect my old E-mail address to the
| vacation(1) auto-responder program which ships with most any UNIX-ish
| system. The bounce message it sends points the mailer to a form on my
| WWW site. 

So for almost[0] every spam and worm you receive on your old E-Mail
address ("still 60 or so messages a day") you send a mail to an address
which is probably fake. Some of them don't exist, but some do. 

	hp

[0] Vacation checks the To: line and doesn't reply to the same address
    twice within a configurable interval (default: 1 week).

-- 
   _  | Peter J. Holzer    | I think we need two definitions:
|_|_) | Sysadmin WSR       | 1) The problem the *users* want us to solve
| |   | hjp at hjp.at         | 2) The problem our solution addresses.
__/   | http://www.hjp.at/ |    -- Phillip Hallam-Baker on spam

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