Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
s. keeling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Incoming from Wayne Topa: > > Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Downloads/SpamTools.tar.gz > > > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > > > > Do

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wayne Topa: > Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Downloads/SpamTools.tar.gz > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > > Do you have another URL Karsten? At one time, http://linuxmafia.com/~karst

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:41:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Personally, my own recommendation would be that you don't. Sound advice, considering how lazy I am. > - Finding out what DNSBLs are accurate (SpamCop, SpamHaus), a few > others. I'm not sure what you mean by "accurate" in

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > on Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. > > > Keep

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. > > Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc. > > Who ar

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-15 Thread Johan Kullstam
Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William Ballard wrote: > > Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. > > And how do you subscribe to the list with "nospam" in the e-mail > address?!? You'll never receive an e-mail to that address! You could make a username with "nospam" in i

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:37, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:26 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:26 +, Chris Lale > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > According to Google, rehash is a Linux/Unix command; but I cannot find > > > it on my system. Perhaps it

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-15 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:26 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:26 +, Chris Lale > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to Google, rehash is a Linux/Unix command; but I cannot find > > it on my system. Perhaps it has been deprecated? > > It's a csh-ism. If you're using

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:26 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Google, rehash is a Linux/Unix command; but I cannot find > it on my system. Perhaps it has been deprecated? It's a csh-ism. If you're using a sh-derivative (eg, bash), you shouldn't need to do anything. My

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 21:32, s. keeling wrote: > > for f in cur/*; do > > perl adcomplain.pl < $f > .. > > done > > You can fix that with chmod: > > chmod 744 adcomplain.pl Already done. No, the reason I need to specify perl is that the first line of adcomplain.pl is a shell hash-

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Lale: > On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:21, s. keeling wrote: > > > > [snip] > > Thanks! Works with slight modification: > > for f in cur/*; do > perl adcomplain.pl < $f .. > done You can fix that with chmod: chmod 744 adcomplain.pl and move adcomplain.pl to one of

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Lale
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:21, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Chris Lale: > > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:04, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. > > > > Keeps everyth

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Lale: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:04, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. > > > Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc. > > > >

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Lale
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:04, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. > > Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc. > > Who are you reporting spam to, anyway?

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 03:44:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Who are you reporting spam to, anyway? I'd like to contribute but I'm > > woefully out-of-touch. > > Well, the hosting networks, of course. Though spamcop.net automates > the process great

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. >> Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc. > > Who

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. > Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc. Who are you reporting spam to, anyway? I'd like to contribute but I'm woefully out-of-touch. --

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: | William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | |>>Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. | | | http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ While I agree that address munging is Not A Good Thing, I find the attempt t

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:29PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. > > http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ Sure, but I don't think this is a munge - I understood his post to mean that "[E

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:03, Clive Menzies wrote: > Below are a range of packages that deal with > spam: > gotmail - Utility to download email from a Hotmail or MSN account Also, in testing and unstable: hotway - acts like a pop3 server, but actually goes to hotmail.com to retrieve requested m

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBlmthUzgNqloQMwcRAlBYAJ97dZK0SZGzM

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:48:16 -0500, John Hannibal Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? > > All

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "John Hannibal Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Nope, this is an open list, spammers often post to the list. Whether or not SPI has any luck collecting advertising fees from the spammers is another quest

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 06:14:45PM +, Joao Clemente wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > >Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. > > And how do you subscribe to the list with "nospam" in the e-mail > address?!? You'll never receive an e-mail to that address! It works just fine. I m

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Robert Storey
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:03:01 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The good news is that there are many ways of dealing with spam using > Debian, even so far as blocking it at smtp time and so most of it > never reaches your machine. Below are a range of packages that deal > with spam

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Joao Clemente
William Ballard wrote: Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. And how do you subscribe to the list with "nospam" in the e-mail address?!? You'll never receive an e-mail to that address! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. how come ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:02:11AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:48:16 -0500, John Hannibal Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? > > All mail to this list is ar

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Hannibal Smith: > > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Nope. The list does stop a lot of spam, but some does still come through. > Will my e-mail address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? Probably, and now that you've posted it, it's available to anyone wh

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/11/04 10:48), John Hannibal Smith wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? > > Just curious! Thanks! No it won't be sold or distributed but spammers harvest mailing list archives and news group

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:48:16 -0500, John Hannibal Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? All mail to this list is archived on the web, so your email address *will* be harvested by spammers.

Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread John Hannibal Smith
Hi everyone, Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? Just curious! Thanks! John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]