>...Now I'm
> testing forged headers to stop the spam before it starts.
I'm sorry to hear that. Yes, it appears to work. But it smacks of
surrender. I HATE the notion of inconveniencing my friends so I can
hide from mail spammers.
I used ROT-13 on my return address for a while, until I got a message from
an old-timer who was ready to give up Usenet altogether... he'd just
bounced a reply trying to reach me. A veteran, not a newbie. And here I
was trying to reach out to newbies and be helpful to them.
So my new policy is this: *Anyone who mailspams me loses his account.*
I don't hide, I don't run, and I don't inconvenience people who want to
write to me for any legitimate reason. But spam me and you die.
If you've got a shell account, there are new pointers on my page
to tools that can fry mailspam unread. jmfilter (www.io.com/~johnbob)
works against mail spam, even better than trnkill does against news spam.
-- Kevin <cannon@nic.com> http://www.nic.com/~cannon/handson.html