Dealing with spam

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Pablo Sanchez (pablo@mew.corp.sgi.com)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 08:47:28 -0600


Howdy folks!

I maintain the Sybase (an RDBMS) FAQ in comp.databases.sybase. Due to
my frequent exposure out on the net, my personal (pablo@sgi.com)
account gets bombarded with spam. I've taken to creating a separate
user on my machine (news_reader) for reading and posting the FAQ,
however I still have the Reply-To set to "pablo@sgi.com"

The "news_reader" user has a vacation() message setup to bounce back
any spam to it.

What do other people do?

ps: I also filter all mail to "pablo@sgi.com"... only "known" people
are allowed to mail me -- thx to sortmail()

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