Re: Dealing with spam

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Pablo Sanchez (pablo@mew.corp.sgi.com)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:07:26 -0600

On Apr 23, 12:15pm, Christopher Allen wrote:
> Subject: Re: Dealing with spam
> At 7:47 AM -0700 4/23/97, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> >
> >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.
>

Actually it's not that difficult... I allow anyone within *known*
companies that I deal with (including my own of course!) and anyone
who I don't "know" gets the following message:

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From: no spam (Pablo Sanchez)
Subject: Spam == Ick!

Due to the high volume of unsolicited e-mail messages that I receive
per day I am now filtering all e-mail that is sent to me. My filter
tries to allow most "friendly" sites in. If you are receiving this
e-mail it's because my filter needs a "little manual adjustment."

Your message dropped into my "deleted" folder to be viewed later. No
need for you to re-type it, simply send me a message that has the
following phrase in it:

Subject: not spam

and I'll fish out your original message from my "deleted" folder and
read it and act. Again, there is no need to re-type it.

Sorry for the one time inconvenience...
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