am I just naive about spam

[J. Francois]

Damn, uou said that better than I could have.

Thanks.

JLF Sends...

Make your dangling participles more appealing,
give it to them wrapped in LaTex.

It seems like on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:33:20AM -0700, D. Taylor scribbled:
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Orig Msg> I think there's a little confusion here.
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Orig Msg> What Victor is talking about is configuring procmail to reply
Orig Msg> to the address listed in the "From: " header or the "Reply-To: "
Orig Msg> header.  He is correct in saying that doing such a thing is
Orig Msg> ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS, because 99.999% of the time these two
Orig Msg> headers are bogus.
Orig Msg> 
Orig Msg> What Jean is talking about is configuring procmail to send
Orig Msg> a "no such user" status to his local MTA (sendmail).  A list
Orig Msg> of exit codes can be found here:
Orig Msg> 
Orig Msg> http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips-body.html#list_of_exit_codes
Orig Msg> 
Orig Msg> By having procmail return exit code 67 to his local MTA, that
Orig Msg> fact will be sent back to the remote MTA that's currently
Orig Msg> talking to Jean's MTA (the remote MTA is more than likely
Orig Msg> a spam relay, and NOT the spammer's real MTA).  The end result
Orig Msg> is that the spam won't get to Jean's local disk.
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Orig Msg> D
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