|Tue 1998-11-03 Mark Shaw <mshaw(_at_)asic(_dot_)sc(_dot_)ti(_dot_)com>
list.procmail
| worded no-spam message went out to *everyone* who sent me email for
| several hours..... *** shudder ***
That must have hurt!
| Now I use the Alcor filters as described in the March 1998 issue of
| Linux Journal. Most of the spam I get gets dumped into a mail file
| that I can check for false positives once a week or so. Great heur-
| istics, but not foolproof....
Same here. I assume that most of the members in this list use similar
automation:
"trap it, move it to folder, look into folder later". My UBE gets dumped
to
~/Mail/spool/junk.ube.spool
by procmail. Hit rate is close to 90%. Slipped message or two
in other folders are fine for me.
I wrote Additional module for Emacs Gnus mail/newsreader (TinyGnus.el),
among other things to help me to reply to UBE messages with couple of
keystrokes.
1. Examine the folder and Select the UBE messages.
2. Hit Anti-UBE-complaint-key and TinyGnus will parse the last received
headers
in the message. It will do reverse lookup for every symbolic(DNS) and
hard(nbr) IP address and generate appropriate status message to the top
of reply body
IP addresses that failed nslookup
...
...
Then the message is addresses to all postmaster in the lowest Received chain
with a message that urges them to install latest Sendmail with couple
of ULR pointer to help them to get the software.
Message is also CC'd to couple of Spam archives.
3. Never bother to reply using Sender: or From: address. It's forged 99% of the
time.
It has been highly efective for over year that I have used it.
The postmasters have been very helpful for plugging in the holes.
jari