On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:25:16PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote: > 5) Make anybody e-mailing to your address who is not on your whitelist > (besides listservs!) respond to an automatic reply to be added to your > whitelist. Most spammers won't respond (although people on the listserv > may get angry and block your e-mail. See caveat re: listservs).
It isn't just people on listserv's that will be annoyed: please never send automatic replies; the "from" address is a lie anyway. I'm assuming that this sort of automatic reply is the reason a large proportion of my junk mail appears to be bounce messages: the Swen virus, or something, is using my address on its mail as the "from" address and clueless virus software is sending me oh-so-helpful messages telling me I'm infected. --Bruce Fields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
