Re: Spam (Re: Urgent Investment)
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:03:50PM +0200, Jaakko Niemi 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.
Yes, I know.
> And if you use the ever handy 'bounce' feature to bounce a mail to
> a mailing list, it might never get there.
So, I am right, mails that aren't (To|Cc) a mailing list won't get through?
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