On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 04:00:02PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor wrote: > > On 12/30/2013 08:48 AM, Tim wrote: > >Allegedly, on or about 30 December 2013, Mihamina Rakotomandimby sent: > >>SPAM is very subjective. > >>I saw users subscribing to several newsletters for an event (say XMas) > >>and then in February they're too lazy to cleanly unsubscribe: they > >>just tag the message as SPAM, and they argue it's SPAM because they > >>dont want to receive the messages anymore. > >>Dumb, but true. > >I've seen that often enough. When the "this is spam" button simply > >configures their own software, it's merely a dumb thing to do. But when > >their mail client's "spam button" *reports* the message as spam, it > >causes problems for the senders, who did nothing wrong. > > > I'm not doing that though, I don't intentionally sign-up for > anything and the deliberately mark it as spam when I'm no longer > interested. Every mailing list I've joined I have a genuine interest > in, or it's a hobby of > mine..(PremierGuitar.com.....GuitarFetish.com...etc) I see no real > way that my email address got out TO the people who are using it as > a spam receptacle!
You see no real way? If you post to a list or news group your email address is out there for the bots to harvest. Your address or your IP is in your headers even if you spoof it. All I want is for the mail that I have no > intention of reading to be sent either to my spam folder...or else > the trash! I guess for now it'll have to be me adding addresses to > my filter, until I can get a handle on the Spam Assassin thing..or > else I might have to just block everything..and then create filters > for the stuff I DO want! but one way or the other...I intend on > handling this spam issue before the end of the year!! Thank you all > for your input...some of those ideas I'm definitely going to try > out.....heck ANYTHING'S better than being "strapped" to your > computer for hours at a time! Your best bet is procmail + spam assassin. The trick is to call SA from sendmail, postfix or whatever you have on your system. If you call it from procmailrc the downloads will slow to a crawl. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor Strangelove Key ID 8D549279
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