On Wednesday 16 October 2002 11:44, Till Kamppeter wrote: >I have made all mailing lists on linuxprinting.org subscriber-only > to avoid spam getting onto the lists. If this guy is not > subscribed (which is probably the case) one could block him out > by making the SANE subscriber-only, too. If he subscribes to > lists only to get spam onto them, the list admin should > unsubscribe him, and if the mailing list software allows it, > blacklist his address against re-subscribing. > >It is very awkward for every list user to set up filter rules > personally. > >In addition, scanning problems can never be solved by > auto-responders, also they don't give any suggestion to make SANE > better. Should postings which are obviously from auto-responders > be blocked out in general? At least the sender domain > "tollyboy.com" should be blocked. > >You are explaining the exact steps how to set a filter rule which >deletes these mails (or does it even forward them automatically to >u...@ftc.gov?), but you don't tell which mail client you are using. > My Mozilla has no "Filter" pull-down menu (but also a filter > dialog, but this dialog has no auto-forwarding to u...@ftc.gov). > > Till > Opps, sorry Till. I'm using kmail-1.4.3 (again after upgrading to rh8.0 this morning -- back on the morning of the 16th that is, and discovering that evolution apparently doesn't support my isp's login procedure for sending mail) I had to dl all 106 packages of kde-3.0.4 for rh8.0 and install it all before I could get that working again. The fonts look like he!! but its working. And its been a looong day.
That filter will grab anything in the From: line with the keyword 'autoresponder' (case insensitive) in it, so its pretty general. I just sent 5 or 6 more of them to u...@ftc.gov, something just above a megabyte total of that excrement for them to sort through. >Gene Heskett wrote: [...I'll leave this for other kmail users] >> pure spam, and has absolutely nothing to do with sane. Pull >> down filters, add a from=autoresponder, close, hit ctrl+j and >> voila! u...@ftc.gov now will get all further copies starting with >> the 3 I've got so far today. >> >> I recommend US citizens follow suite. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
