At 10:39 PM 10/9/97 -0700, Felix Tilley wrote:
My "old friend" better not be using one of these anonymous email services.
If he does, he gets procmailed to /dev/null.
I repeat: I have never gotten anything but spam from hotmail, juno, and
rocketmail.
Are you sure? I don't know about rocketmail, but all the spam "from"
hotmail and juno I've seen recently has forged From: headers. Usually
it seems to have been injected via uu.net.
I've seen a message from the juno postmaster somewhere recently to the
effect that they do not allow their users to relay through other
SMTP servers.
Perhaps your .procmailrc just needs to be more sophisticated (can't
say for sure; you didn't post it) and check the routing.
These sites are not willing to install software that warns when a user is
sending out gobs of email. So I send their stuff to /dev/null.
This logic only applies to non-forged spam; most spam these days
has forged headers (and partially forged routing information). I bet
you'll be really happy when spammers start forging "From:
(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_at_)goodnet(_dot_)com"
and people using your logic start dumping your email into the trash.
Cheers,
Stan