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Subject: Re: SUMMARY: How to filter spammers or their domains.
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:28:55 -0500 (CDT)
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In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.3.94.960912114254.18237I-100000@milan> from "Kevin Kelleher" at Sep 12, 96 11:53:50 am
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Kevin Kelleher writes: ]
> 
> I am a big fan of procmail, which is a mail-filtering program,
> and propose another method of spam filtering.

Well... I'm a fan of deliver, because I decided I didn't want to learn
yet another meta-language just to filter mail. Deliver lets one write
the filtering logic in whatever form is most expedient at the moment:
sh, Perl, C, C++, etc. It simply expects an address or keyword returned
to indicate what it's to do with the mail. Deliver is available from any
comp.sources.unix archive site.

> 1. change the list alias so that instead of sending mail to resend,
>    it goes to a user account, which could even be the list-owner's
>    account.

Sounds like a potential security problem to me, but why would one have
to do that anyway? If it's just to establish context, then just use
wrapper (or a modified wrapper).

-- 
 Dave Wolfe    *Not a spokesman for Motorola*
 Motorola MMTG  6501 Wm. Cannon Dr. W. OE112  Austin  TX  78735-8598


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