Re: Spam (Re: Urgent Investment)
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:38:11PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:05:45PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> >
> > > Come on, it's only a few pieces every so often. It's not like it takes
> > > all that much effort to delete it. Actually a lot less effort than
> >
> > Spam through Debian lists tends to be vastly more irritating than most
> > since all the lists tend to get hit at once.
>
> A simple mail filter will catch duplicate posts like that.
It is possible to filter these, but it is not simple. These messages are
rarely cross-posted; usually they are separate messages with different
Message-IDs and often slightly different ("personalized") body content.
Something like spamassassin probably does it, though.
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- mdz
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