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Re: ignore the spam. don't reply to it.



On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:54:38 -0800
Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> wrote:

> * Jeremy Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> [20030319 12:58 PST]:
> > Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it
> > was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user.  It had
> > an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course,
> > a virus, if anyone had any doubts.
> 
> The proper thing to do is silently ignore such messages.
> Properly-configured filters such as spamassassin can do the proper
> thing to the original messages.  The new nuisance is the thread of
> messages that follow each spam, which don't get caught by the filters,
> and which are hardly less on-topic or appropriate list traffic.
> 
> Yes, I realize the irony of this post.
> 
On a related topic,

anybody ever got the mozilla spamfilter to do some actual filtering?
I hear it's great but it doesn't do anything for me.

Klaus



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