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In a futile gesture against entropy, Angus Manwaring wrote:

> Seriously, if you guys are having to deal with this sort of thing too,
> please tell me what measures you are taking.

Running SpamAssassin, basically...
(Unfortunately, this rather requires a *ix box of some description to
 be acting as a mail server for your miggy.)
-- 
Adam Jones (adam@yggdrasl.demon.co.uk)(http://www.yggdrasl.demon.co.uk/)
.oO("If I ever grow a penis, I'll keep that in mind."                  )
PGP public key: http://www.yggdrasl.demon.co.uk/pubkey.asc

Angus Manwaring went to the 'fridge and arranged the magnets to say:
> Hiya,
> 
> Does everyone receive vast amounts of spam from yahoo and aol addresses
> (in particular) offering viagra to oral fixated teenagers, and everything
> in between?

So much now that I'm seriously thinking of dunping this address and
asking Demon for a new one.

> By editing smtp.conf (I'm using basically one of the later disa Amitcp
> installations) I can block everything from aol for instance, but is there
> a way of allowing a specific aol address to be accepted, and all the rest
> rejected?
> 
> Thought not.

Wrong!  Getmail 2.32 21/04/98 accepts first, rejects second.

Mine is a script file 29022 bytes size.

> I blame Phil, and Getmail!!!   ;)

Is that wise???

No�l.

-- 
It's early retirement.  It affects the legs, you know.
                Hyacinth Bucket.

Noel Foster <noel@nffoster.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> So much now that I'm seriously thinking of dunping this address and
> asking Demon for a new one.

are you still getting mail delivered by smtp from Demon these days? You
could just pick a new username and refuse mail addressed to the old one?

dont know how feasible that is with the software you have though?

Is there never any pressure amongst demon customers for demon to adopt
the stance of a spam deleter?  It would be nice if they ran SpamAssassin
or something similar on their servers, and thus your mailbox didnt fill
up with junk in the first place.

I'm thinking it would be nice if MY isp did this (they dont have a
public forum alas) because even though I dont use my normal email
address on usenet I used it on a couple of mailing lists a while
ago and now I get huge amounts of spam anyway. Its manageable if
I check email every day but next year I will likely go sailing
again and will have to change my email address as the mailbox will
fill very quickly. I dont actually dial my ISP much because their
system doesnt have PPP compression available but its a shame because
they are free and I'm fairly comfortable there otherwise.

iain

In message <0311251010.60602@nffoster.demon.co.uk>, on  Tue, 25 Nov 
2003, Noel Foster <noel@nffoster.demon.co.uk> writes
>Angus Manwaring went to the 'fridge and arranged the magnets to say:
>
>Wrong!  Getmail 2.32 21/04/98 accepts first, rejects second.

I'm glad you answered that Noel, since I can no longer remember, and I 
don't have the source code any more either :(

>> I blame Phil, and Getmail!!!   ;)
>
>Is that wise???

If you really want to, send me the Viagra.

Just keep the spam to yourself!
-- 
Phil

Iain Hibbert went to the 'fridge and arranged the magnets to say:
> 
> are you still getting mail delivered by smtp from Demon these days? You
> could just pick a new username and refuse mail addressed to the old one?

I reject most of it automatically but it still takes time.  I realised I
was losing the battle when mail took longer to deal with than news.  I
have many usernames for different uses alredy.

> Is there never any pressure amongst demon customers for demon to adopt
> the stance of a spam deleter?  It would be nice if they ran SpamAssassin
> or something similar on their servers, and thus your mailbox didnt fill
> up with junk in the first place.

It seems to be against Demon's policy to censor mail or news (well
except for free.* anyroadup).

No�l.

-- 
It's early retirement.  It affects the legs, you know.
                Hyacinth Bucket.

Philip Stokes went to the 'fridge and arranged the magnets to say:
> In message <0311251010.60602@nffoster.demon.co.uk>, on  Tue, 25 Nov 
> 2003, Noel Foster <noel@nffoster.demon.co.uk> writes
>
> >Wrong!  Getmail 2.32 21/04/98 accepts first, rejects second.
> 
> I'm glad you answered that Noel, since I can no longer remember, and I 
> don't have the source code any more either :(

Do you want it back?  You sent it to me early February last year.  I'm
sure you sent it to Angus a few days earlier.  It's an ARexx script.

No�l.

-- 
It's early retirement.  It affects the legs, you know.
                Hyacinth Bucket.

In message <2003112733.1990@nffoster.demon.co.uk>, on  Thu, 27 Nov 2003, 
Noel Foster <noel@nffoster.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>Do you want it back?  You sent it to me early February last year.  I'm
>sure you sent it to Angus a few days earlier.  It's an ARexx script.

Yes please! I accidentally deleted it from my old machine whilst 
transferring stuff to the new one.

I used to run the script through a utility that "converted" it into an 
executable, but I remember not bothering to do that with the last few 
versions, as they were only distributed on request.

-- 
Phil

In message <1045.460T436T11183455angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk>, on 
Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Angus Manwaring <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> 
writes
>On 26-Nov-03 00:43:14, Philip Stokes said
>>In message <0311251010.60602@nffoster.demon.co.uk>, on  Tue, 25 Nov
>
>>If you really want to, send me the Viagra.
>
>Now you know I was joking, Phil!

So was I. Rumours that I need Viagra due to my advancing years are 
totally without foundation, and will be vigorously rebutted.

Now, where'd I put the number for Jacko's lawyer...
-- 
Phil

Philip Stokes went to the 'fridge and arranged the magnets to say:
> In message <2003112733.1990@nffoster.demon.co.uk>, on  Thu, 27 Nov 2003, 
> Noel Foster <noel@nffoster.demon.co.uk> writes
> >
> >Do you want it back?  You sent it to me early February last year.  I'm
> >sure you sent it to Angus a few days earlier.  It's an ARexx script.
> 
> Yes please! I accidentally deleted it from my old machine whilst 
> transferring stuff to the new one.
> 

You have email to your Reply-To:

No�l.

-- 
It's early retirement.  It affects the legs, you know.
                Hyacinth Bucket.

In message <2263.462T1250T12015045angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk>, 
on  Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Angus Manwaring 
<angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>So.....
>
>if I put the following in the smtp.conf will I still get e-mails from my
>mate?

[Snip]

>my_mate@aol.com
>#any

Looks like that's what I intended Angus, so it should work.

-- 
Phil

In message <0031128959.57562@nffoster.demon.co.uk>, on  Fri, 28 Nov 
2003, Noel Foster <noel@nffoster.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>You have email to your Reply-To:

Got it Noel.

Thanks very much!
-- 
Phil