>>>>> "Sherwood" == Sherwood Botsford <sherwood@???>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:51:33 -0700 (MST)
Sherwood> A while ago I added ix.netcom.com and worldnet.att.net to
Sherwood> my reject list. Neither one takes 'no' for an answer.
Sherwood> I suspect that they are assuming that they are being
Sherwood> rejected because the system is busy.
Are you rejecting them at the from point or at the recipients point?
ie if you are using
sender_reject = ...
then change to
sender_reject_recipients = ...
that may well sort them out, since you are saying the recipients are a
problem rather than the sender....
Sherwood> I am beginning to think that the way to handle spam is to
Sherwood> accept it, but add an extra header to it, X-Spam: Crap
Sherwood> from worldnet.att.net then in my global procmail file
Sherwood> quietly deliver it to /dev/null
But thats burning more of your bandwidth - keep them right out.
Nigel.
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