> 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.
Well, I personally dislike the idea of intentionally posting anything to
USENET with munged headers (particularly when posting an FAQ), because I
believe in adhearing to the RFC and posting with a valid return address.
Also, I find that the value of the replies that I've received to the
FAQ and to my regular postings far outweighs the nusiance of receiving
spam messages.
Personally, I use procmail to send 'make money fast' stuff to /dev/null,
and to bounce back anything from cyberpromo.com or savetrees.com back to
about ten or fifteen different (valid) addresses at cyberpromo.com. I've
recently done the same for the cyber-broadcasting.com domain. For me,
that takes care of maybe 80% of the junk that I receive; as for the rest,
I usually call up the 'Administrative Contact' listed in whois for the
originating site (which may not be the same as the domain listed in the
From: header, due to intenional address forgeries), and complain about
spam coming from their site. I've actually received helpful responses
from a couple of sites (most notably, bigger.net) after doing this.
I figure that it costs me less than a quarter to make the phone call,
and it's well worth it, considering what I'd have to pay to upgrade my
disk space and CPU to handle a massive increase in spam messages.
Any other suggestions? Comments?
(I guess this really belonngs in news.admin.net-abuse.email, but it seems
relevant in the FAQ-maintainer context as well)
-- Scott
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