Re: [SAtalk] autoreply to spam.

2003-12-17 Thread Dan Wilder
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:08:44AM -0500, AltGrendel wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 20:45, Dan Wilder wrote: > > > > > The reasons I would never in a million years set up such an > > autoresponder are: > > > > * It only increases the burden on the Internet and on one's own > >mail servers,

Re: [SAtalk] autoreply to spam.

2003-12-17 Thread AltGrendel
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 20:45, Dan Wilder wrote: > > The reasons I would never in a million years set up such an > autoresponder are: > > * It only increases the burden on the Internet and on one's own >mail servers, attempting to send mail which will in most cases >simply time out due

Re: [SAtalk] autoreply to spam.

2003-12-16 Thread Dan Wilder
Very easy to do what you describe using procmail. If I were setting up something like this (which I would not do for love or for money) I'd use the vacation program to actually send the messages, avoiding getting trapped in most kinds of mail loops. The reasons I would never in a million years

[SAtalk] autoreply to spam.

2003-12-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Hi, I have for some time used 'spambouncer' http://www.spambouncer.org/ which despite being useful is I feel not too good at catching spam. I know spamassasin does a better job. However, spambouncer has one very useful feature, which is sufficient to prevent me changing to spamassasin. W