am I just naive about spam

[jiva@devware.com]

FYI, I have a rather drastic, but very useful rule in my procmail
recipes... it moves EVERYTHING not *explicitly* addressed to me that
is also not caught by my mailing list recipes to a folder called
"POSSIBLE-SPAM."  Since I put this recipe in my inbox is wonderfully
quiet and almost NO SPAM gets through.  It's 99.9% effective for
spam.  Mind you, it's drastic, and you really want to have your
mailing lists going to other things first, but here it is:

(note: replace you@yourdomain.com - duh)

### Recipe number 24
### Name: AntiSpam2
:0H
* !^TOyou@yourdomain.com
{

	### Save to file
	### test if the directory exists
	FILE = POSSIBLE-SPAM
	FILE = `/bin/echo $FILE | /bin/sed -e 'y/ /_/'`
	DIR = `/usr/bin/dirname $FILE`
	:0 icw
	* !? test -d $DIR
	| /usr/local/lib/dotfile-2.2/procmail/mkdirhier $DIR

	:0c:
	$FILE

	### Now stop this action.
	:0i
	| /bin/false
}


On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 04:03:20PM -0700, sinck@corp.quepasa.com wrote:
> 
> \_ I was getting an occasional spam email like
> \_ maybe once a week when I decided that I should
> \_ go ahead and fill out the stuff to be removed.
> \_ as soon as I did that I don't know if they
> \_ decided wow I have a real address here.  now
> \_ I get 3-10 spam messages from porn-home bussnes-
> \_ loan-everything else crap.  I never understood
> \_ why people complained so much until now.  I
> \_ don't know if it is from the place I said to
> \_ unsubscribe me or if they just sold my email
> \_ to everyone else in the world??? arg!!
> 
> did the original one stop at least?  :-)
> 
> I only believe the unsubscribe magic for reputable companies.  If it's
> good and true spam, then I quietly delete it.  If it had been a
> recurring problem like what you have, I probably would have started
> man'ing procmail until I made it go away.  :-)
> 
> David
> 
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