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Re: Gruber Sales Team is spamming me

#188
From: Wotan
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:26
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Larry J. demonstrated that booze and posting
 do not mix by posting the following: 
 
>Waiving the right to remain silent, harmony711@yahoo.com (Harmony) wrote:
>
>> I get tons of messages from Gruber Sales team and I'm sick of it.
>> Constantly spamming me. I even try to use filters and it doesn't work.
>> You can send spam mail to
>> 
>> SPAM@UCE.GOV
>
>That was useful for a few years.  It's now a black hole, so don't bother.

When was this ever useful for stopping spam?

Two things work.  Unpublished email addresses and good, aggressive 
filtering.  The second being more reliable.  

Procmail is the only way to go.


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Subject: Re: Gruber Sales Team is spamming me
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