[Cialug] F'n Opt-in Spammers

[Jon Clemons]

Odd what spam filtering program are you using?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Perdue" <tim at perdue.net>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] F'n Opt-in Spammers


> Wow. I may go back to my prior plan, which was to pipe the 
> tim at perdue.net address into a php script that would /dev/null everything 
> except a handful of known-good addresses (register.com, 
> networksolutions, tonybibbs.com, etc)
> 
> perdue.net is already in my blacklist, since so much spam was coming in 
> from bogus support at perdue.net, admin@, blah@, etc, that I had to ban my 
> own damned domain.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> D. Joe Anderson wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:33:35PM -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>> 
>>>Yeah, I think I'm simply saying I understand your argument...I could do 
>>>more to prevent spam from getting past the mail server (and I will) but
>> 
>> 
>> You know, I don't care about what gets past your mail server,
>> sort of like I don't care if you eat fast food that's bad for
>> your heart.
>> 
>> But if you litter the sidewalk with the burger wrappers, I care. 
>>  
>> 
>>>I disagree with the standpoint that tools like TMDA are reincarnations 
>>>of the devil.
>> 
>> 
>> Who said that?  I said they were worse than spammers, because
>> you should know better.  Theology doesn't have anything to do
>> with this, unless you're trying to paint me as some kind of
>> extremist for saying you shouldn't spam people.  That's another
>> kind of uncool, but so it goes.
>> 
>> 
>>>Agree to disagree, me-thinks.
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, well, sure.  You're apparently a lost cause.  But Tim
>> presumably hasn't put it into production, yet, which makes this
>> exchange potentially something other than a pointless yammering
>> back and forth.
>> 
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