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Just wanted to add my $0.02.  What I find works really well at a location
where I get lots of spam (at work), is to filter on the characters
frequently found in spam, e.g., $$$, !!!, SEX, money, wealth, riches, ***,
spare time, etc.  When I notice a spam get through, I add a new filter on
some characteristic.  Spammers all seem  to use similar subject lines.

In article <rowbotth***-2212971931550001@ftmmpx03-port-53.agt.net>,
rowbotth***@telusplanet.net (DHR@telusplanet.net) wrote:

->In article <see-2112971759200001@ids.vip.best.com>, see@my.sig (Kevin) wrote:
->
->> >I ditched it months ago in favor of the "legitimate address"
->> >filter....much simpler, filters faster, and seems to be just as effective.
->> >I used to take the time to contact all the postmasters, but I gave up.
->> 
->> Automate the process.  I wrote a perl script called 'yell' that complains
->> automatically - point a spam at it, and *grind* *slash*.   The next
->> generation of it, "Rebel Yell", will even browse the spammer's Web page
->> and warn everyone he links to that the page's owner is spamming.  
->> This really screws up the spammers!!!   I've watched LinkExchange banners
->> vanish off Web pages as a result of my complaints. 
->> 
->> Unfortunately 'yell' is in perl and relies on Unix tools like 'mail'.
->> Mac users with perl can get some functionality out of it if they also
->> have a unix shell account, but point-and-click it is not. 
->
->The SPAMers have gotten very clever about spoofs, during my tries at it
->manually, it turns only the postmasters could track it down. Just when I
->thought I had which address was the right one figured out, it would turn
->aout to be somewhere else in the header. This is why the AppleScript
->automation never worked for me, I think...about 2 out of every 10
->postmasters it whined to, I'd get a letter back saying "it wasn't us, it
->was <insert ISP here>"
->
->> >And as much as I hate to do it, I found that my "expanded e-mail address"
->> >signature combined with a fake return address has cut-down considerably on
->> >the SPAM I receive (that, and dropping my AOL accounts...used to get 25-75
->> >messages of SPAM a week there!).
->> 
->> It is unfortunate that spamblocking works.  I no longer write private
->> replies to people on Usenet, because of spamblocking.  A lot of people
->> use a real-sounding e-mail address, and don't tell you it's fake.  
->> I don't like sending mail into black holes.  
->
->I can't blame you, and I know it is a practice deplored by the original
->Usenet geeks, but I can see no other choice. Some of these mangled e-mail
->addresses are harder to decrypt than others ("please remove the ____ from
->my e-mail address"), I just set mine up so you can "read" the address
->aloud and get the typed addy.  ;)
->
->The e-mail address given as "reply to" is obviosly faked to anyone paying
->attention.  :)
->
->> The reason you got so much spam on AOL is because you have a profile. 
->> Spammers do profile searches and then harvest the names.  There are 
->> many commercial programs to do this automatically.  So don't have one! 
->
->I had little choice for a long time.  =)
->
->> >I've about as 'bot-proofed my identity as I can.  :)
->> 
->> I refuse to hide under a rock.  However I have a Big F*cking Gun and a 
->> whole lot of attitude.  So spamming me would be a mistake. 
->
->Your gun works, mine kept misfiring. I'm not hiding under a rock, I'm
->carrying an active jammer.  :)   If folks *really* need to talk to me, I
->haven't made it *that* difficult to do so.
->
->=)
->
->A question for the group:
->
->I am using Newswatcher 2.3.5.  I am told I can set up filters, and if I do
->this right, SPAM can be ashcanned and I never see it.
->
->Haven't bothered yet, but if I was to watch the postings and analyse them
->for a while, couldn't I use thei filtering to remove a lot of spam?  (Has
->anyone tried this?)
->
->Also, I read in a MAC mag recently that the ANTISPAM string you enter in
->your address to try to foil these people (Is this why there should be laws
->to prevent lawyers mating with drug dealers?  So we get no more spamming
->arseholes?), you should use a combination of letters and numbers, and
->avoid the obviuopus - which I have not done yet, obviously!
->
->DHR.
->
->
->kevin at quosig dot com
->
->"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good,
-> Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood."
->
->-- 
->wotthehell wotthehell archie wotthehell wotthehell
->
->{Take the 3 *** out of my return address to reply.  My version of a SPAM
PILL.}

-- 
-Sincerely, Rich Cook           

http://www.bais.com/~rcook 
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