Re: Spam (Re: Urgent Investment)

[Jaakko Niemi <liiwi@iki.fi>]

Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:25:53PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
>> If the message is not to the list directly, hold it.  (about 60% of spam)
> 
> I thought we already kill those automatically. I wanted to filter these out
> in my ~/.mailfilter but then I checked my =spam mailbox and saw that all of
> the spams that reached me through Debian lists were actually addressed to
> the lists.
> 
> Maybe it was just a weird sample, though...

 spammers have noticed that people are automatically directing stuff
not addressed to them into /dev/null, so some newer versions of
spamming softwares do send each recipient customized mail.

 And if you use the ever handy 'bounce' feature to bounce a mail to
a mailing list, it might never get there. 

                   -j