Re: stopping junk email

From: Mark Landers (mlanders@netcom.com)
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 17:49:30 -0400

In article <dN+N0cvWNoRR092yn@muenchen.org>,
bm175375@muenchen.org (Werner Ernst) wrote:
:Hi Mark,
:
:until now I'm not using mail filters, but your idea looks very good!
:
:[...]
:
:> filter name: z
:> search for: @
:Has this ^ character a special meaning ("all other")? Why ASCII 64?
:

Nothing so complicated; the fake To: line the slimevertisers use has an
"@" in it. This is meant to filter to junk everything not already
processed since INBOX has already been done. Perhaps a similar filter
(zz) which searches the From: line for "@" will become necessary if the
spammers start using a totally bogus To: line.

:> Filters for digests, which are To: mlanders, start with "a" (so they
:> don't get sent to INBOX), filters for mailing lists are "c" to "y".
:
:YAEH! If needed, there could be filter names like "aa", "ab" ... "bb"
:and so on. As the doc file says:
:
: Filter rules are processed in sorted order by rule name. Each
: rule is checked in turn until a match is found. If no rules
: match, the message is moved to the INBOX folder.
:
:I think I will set up rules in this manner. Thank you for posting the
:idea!
:
:Werner Ernst from Munich/Germany

I'm surprised that something so simple wasn't thought of before. Now if
something like this could be implemented in procmail we wouldn't even
have to download the garbage.

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