🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <is.in-ya02408000R1301981449070001@news.ind.mh.se>,
is.in@the.reply.to (Charles Arthur) wrote:

>Spammers choose not to show you the recipients field because it would be
>huge and interfere with you reading their "message". Typically, they set up
>the Bcc: to be a huge string of addresses grabbed from Usenet. They telnet
>to an open mail relay. They enter a fake ID, then the Subject line, fake
>To: line, empty Cc: line, and then a huge stream of Bcc:, and then the
>"content" of their "message". Your address is there in the Bcc. So it goes
>to you, and a million other unwilling people.

I don't think any purely negative approach would work. On the other side a
positive approach (only known addresses admited) works but it is too narrow
and time consuming.

I think I found a (potential?) better anti-spam device in Eudora Pro 4
filters. I mean the filter which deals whith any msg which "intersects
nickname", that is when it selects  msgs that contains any address(es)
registered under a nickname. PROVIDED there is a way of setting this filter
to "any nickname", you could then select the msgs from all known address,
that is all addressed mentioned in your nickname list; the rest can be sent
to the trash or less drastically to a semi-spam mailbox.
Even more flexible would be a jolly "any nickname which belongs to a
group".
At the moment you can do it manually, by setting up a nickname which
contains all the nicknames, which is a bit long and unwieldly
M
PS.:of course, an "any nickname" jolly would also be handy to send msg to
groups of people