Hi J.D.,
you wrote on Thu, May 20 1999:
[no courtesy-copies, please]
> Exactly -- and you have to keep track of those, and hope
> that your friends don't bcc you (since few if any MTA's
> include the Bcc: header when they transfer the message), and
> make sure you've got all your aliases in there, and so on.
I personally don't like cc's or bcc's. Since I take a look at the
headers in mailbox spam, I usually catch those few exceptions, that
are not spam. Since I also just match my domain (and no specific user)
my filter just looks like:
if $header_To: does not match "@(thebetteros|ntrulez)\.oche\.de"
> Plus, it does nothing to reduce the cost of spam; your server
> still has to accept it and process it.
Right, but since it's so easy, to get it out of my face, I happily
accept those additional mails. I also get email/news via UUCP, which
is very fast and economic.
I got myself a free email address at bigfoot.com, they allow me to set
vacation mode (my message is "don't use this address, it's just my
spam-bucket"), my newsreader puts in the bigfoot-address and just sets
the "Reply-To:" header to my actual address. For some strange reason,
the spammers totally ignore the reply-to address and just send their
spam to bigfoot. Might not be fair, but I let them bother with it.
So my spam-mailbox isn't very large :-)
Kind regards Frederick
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