[Dxspider-support] Testing indicates this reflector reveals the senders actual e-mail address

[Bob Nielsen]

A large number of those on this list use Linux.  If you run your mail
through procmail, it can invoke spamassassin without your needing to
run a full-fledged mailserver.  I find that it is >99% effective,
although I still get a few false positives, so I do take a look at the
sender and subject before deleting the messages caught by spamassassin,
rather than routing it to /dev/null. If some valid senders keep getting
caught, you can add them to your whitelist.

73, Bob N7XY

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:09:26PM +0200, Simon Ravnic wrote:
> Hi Ron & others!
> 
> > I am now getting so much spam on a daily basis that its getting painful
> <snip>
> >I can only play defense.
> 
> But with clever defense you can make them suffer. The easiest way to do this
> is use Spamcop (http://spamcop.net/). It goes like this. You open an account
> and they give you special email address to where you forward all the spam
> that you receive. Before forwarding it you copy&paste in all the message
> headers (explained on site). Spamcop process incoming spam and notifies
> administrators of host relaying junk email. This doesn't reduce amount of
> spam in your mailbox but it helps fighting against it globaly.
> 
> But that is just a start. SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.org/) is another
> great tool. This is a mail filter installed at mail server that helps
> identifying incoming spam. Based on some clever rules and techniques it
> marks incoming mail as spam and then you just set up a filter (in e.g.
> Outlook) that put's such mail directly to Trashbin. If you don't run your
> own mail server you can still put some pressure on your ISP and try to make
> him use this.
> 
> I'm using both tools and I get around two spam emails per week. All others
> are rejected (IP blocking tools) by SpamAssassin at mail server or marked as
> spam and deleted.
> 
> > Ron N5IN
> 
> 73
> Simon, S53ZO