Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:21 pm, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Jason Boxman wrote:
> > I find the effective rule is to trash mail that doesn't have my email
> > in the From: address. Hopefully the spammers won't ever catch on...
>
> Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, but doesn't that mean that
> if someone bcc's you on a legit message that you really ought to read,
> you won't see it?
>
> (I assume when you say "From:", you really mean either "From:" or "Cc:"
> -- if not, then even a non-blind copy would get tossed.)
Well, yeah. And I filter mailing lists and specific addresses first.
The only false positives I had were from forgetting to match on
MYEMAIL@DOMAIN.COM in addition to myemail@domain.com.
> Craig
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