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 > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Afternoon, n.: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning.