Re: [faq-maintainers] spam and autoresponders

From: Ben Armstrong (synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 09:13:22 CST


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:45:58PM -0800, Edward Hasbrouck wrote:
> Should I shut down the autoresponder? How many people still have email
> but not convenient Web access? (A substantial number, I think, but I
> don't know.) How do others deal with the spam+autoresponder problem?

Filter the autoresponder? A good spam filter (e.g. Spamassassin) could
bitbucket the majority of requests, only letting through those which
(hopefully) are real attempts to access the address for legitimate
purposes.

Ben

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