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pete$no$pam@pdlmail.demon.co.uk wrote:

What you mention here is exactly what I want. I did mean to mention a
keep facility also where you could specify certain names from
somewhere like CompuServe and AOL because all this *@compuserve.com
with 10million users or whatever is a pain from a mailkill point of
view!


>This might be rather tricky with the basic mailkill mechanism
>- I presume WinDIS uses the same or similar code to the
>standard NET 2.16d.  Both the recent GremNOS version of ka9q
>and my own local delivery program (and perhaps YAN/others)
>support a keep as well as a kill facility, similar to news
>kill.  In order to do what you want, I have the two entries:
>
> *[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*@*
>
>which gets anything with 4 consec digits as you'd expect,
>and
>
> !*[0-7][0-7][0-7][0-7][0-7].[0-7][0-7][0-7]*@compuserve*
>
>which lets valid Compu$erve mail through, mail which would
>otherwise have been rejected by the first rule.
>
>Without a keep facility, the best I can think of at the moment
>is:
>
> *[89]*@compuserve.com 
>
>which should kill mail forged to appear as though from CS,
>but only if there's a 8 or 9 in the numeric part (there
>usually is, in my experience.)  Perhaps someone else can
>come up with a better kill rule for this sort of mail.
>
>It's certainly worth doing - the rules above from my mailkill
>account for over 2/3 of the UCE rejections here.
>-- 
>Pete
>


Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>