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James Aubrey <jaubrey@jaubrey.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I am increasingly getting annoyed with spam mail, advertising illegal
> mail and MLM scams, illegal web pages complete with child porn pics, 
> and now the 'god squads' of the world have got in on the act, I've had
> an email from a johova witness no less!! :( The reply to addresses are
> always something like dont@reply.here.com, I manage to find an address
> in the header and write to the postmaster of than domain but it still
> happens! What can I do to stop this from happening?

Youa re doing most of what can be done already as far a stopping it at
source is concerned but there are a few other methods that will work,
especially if the messages are often from the same addresses:
1, You can change your email address in your posting by adding any bit
of text, something obvious like NO_SPAM is the normal way to do it,
personally I think this method is crap as it's a real pain in the arse
to fiddle with when someone wants to reply to you, some people won't
notice and so their messages won't bounce and quite a fe people just
hate it so much that if they see you've done it then they won't bother
to respond.  However if the level of crap really is far to high then it
may be a good idea of course your old email addr has been in the public
domain for a while now and it'll be some time before you notice much
difference!  Also Oasis will also use the same invalid, email adress
when you send an email which is very much unwanted. Basically it's a
pian in the arse for me an you.

2, As you are using NOS you have the option of a MAILKILL file, it's
called "MAILKILL" and sits in the normal /Oasis/ directory, if you plonk
an email address on each line, everytime an email is offered to your
computer from these addresses your computer will reject it and you won't
see it again. Although Demon will thentry and return the mail to it's
original sender which is almost certainly forged, to be honest I've no
idea where it goes but certianly not on your machine! Hopefully Mike de
Petris will soon add a wildcard feature to this system to make it a bit
more flexibe.  I can tell you that this is one feature that I really
miss ont he Mac.

3, Demon's POP3 service allows you to scan your mail, telnet to
"pop3.demon.co.uk 666" and give your details,  you will need to set a
POP3 password first by telnetting to "password.demon.co.uk" if you
haven't done so already though.  If you see a dodgy mail there then you
can add the address to your mailkill file, sadly this will almost
certainly mean logging on with NOS and SMTP disable, scanning the
mailbox, logging off, editing mailkill, logging on, starting SMTP again
which is a bit of a pain although as I keep saying, if the from address
is always the same you don't need to do this.

3a, POP3 also allows you to delete your mail remotely, once you have
scanned the mailbox, you can then telnet to the server again without
appending '666' to it's name and use the DELE [mailnumber] command to
delete the mail.  If you log onto the server this way you should be able
to do a list of a mails also, i'm not sure iof the command though,
probably LIST.

For info on POP3 then you should read the POP3 FAQ's on demons website
(and probably FTP server) and also the POP3 RFC which can be found on
demon's ftp server (something like /pub/doc/RFC/), I think the RFC you
need is rfc1939.txt, be carefull doing a dir once inside the RFC
directory, there's over a thousand in there!

Mail me if you need any help, some of this stuff sounds  bit complex,
but it's not to hard and with a few hotkeys it should be pretty easy to
do quickly.


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