Re: newer generation of spam

["Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 12:15:42AM -0400, Graeme Tank wrote:

> This newer class of spam is in html format. Yeah, yeah, html email is
> evil, but Friends and Family find the layout so
> beautiful/default_option that I'm unwilling to send all html formatted
> email to /dev/null.
> 
> An example of this newer class of spam format can be found at:
> 
>    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~graemet/newerspamformat.html


Hate to break it to you, but there's nothing new about that.  They've
been doing it for a long time now.  One option, stop allowing HTML mail,
but you've already stated you don't see that as viable.  Another option
is to filter all e-mail through stripmime:
   
   http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html

Downside of this route is that all non-plain-text parts are removed.
So, you may need to setup an account for recieving attachments.

Personally, I ban all HTML e-mail.  If friends/family need to e-mail me
badly enough, they can learn how to send plain-text.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

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