Re: Junk Mail (fwd)

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Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:01:24 -0500


On Jan 25, 14:34, Kent Landfield wrote:

} Your view that programs can't correct addresses like what you have described
} is absolutely bogus. Any programmer with any background in email environments
} could correctly convert these back. Articles should be replyable to and FAQs
} are originated as articles. By doing what you have proposed you are making
} the problem worse for your readers, the same folks you are trying to help
} by answering their frequently asked questions.

In my particular case, I get between 5 and 10 pieces of spam, 2 and 3
people using my sitefaq for testing their mailer, and other junk per day.
Real submissions are on the order of one per _month_.

I'm planning to set my FAQ's reply-to to /dev/null, and force people to
manually edit the reply addresses.

-- 
For more information on spam, including countermeasures and resources,
see the Internet Spam Boycott, at <URL:http://www.vix.com/spam/>.

Chris Lewis: _Una confibula non sat est_



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