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Re: Am I on the Spammer's blacklists? (was [I] A new type of spam?)

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From: Tim B
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:00
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In message <19c02b9948%Graham@southlin.demon.co.uk>
          Graham Seale <Graham@southlin.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Sometime back, I was given a recipe for what claimed to be a techie
> way of seriously inconveniencing a spammer. You modify your "From:"
> field to something like see.sig.for.real.addr@[127.0.0.-1]. Its a
> loopback that returns the spam to the spammer.
Heh, thats quite neat
>
> Then  fix your sig to contain something like ..
> real addr is graham (at) southlin (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk
> 
I don't bother with that and I average a lot less than one spam mail a
day. I just dump these into Junkmail and apart from that I ignore
them...(probly 3 or 4 a week, although it varies a lot and I don't keep
count so...)

Tim
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From: Tim B <timothy@armage.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Am I on the Spammer's blacklists? (was [I] A new type of spam?)
Date: 1998/10/25
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