> 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()
Smart. I've taken to making my header say
Reply-to: *jon@taygeta.com
which is also what I do when posting to USENET personally. Then I have to
tell humans to remove the "*" before <R>eplying (see .sig, below)
It seems to work for most email address trolling programs. I did have a
procmail script, once, but I forgot how I did that when I switched
machines -- I'm not motivated enough to do THAT all over again.
Luckily, I post from an entirely different machine (in another country!),
so it would be trivial to set up a .vacation file. As it is, I just
bounce mail to my "real" address. So far the junk mail has been annoying,
but not deadly.
John D. Verne <*jdv@the-wire.com>
Remember to remove the "*" when <R>eplying!