Re: Dealing with spam

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Christopher Allen (ChristopherA@consensus.com)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:15:49 -0700

At 7:47 AM -0700 4/23/97, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
>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()

I too am having this problem -- I received over 50(!) spams this weekend
probably because my latest rev to the SSL-Talk FAQ got posted last week.

I wish I could define who the "known" people are to me and use your solution.

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