On 2002-05-15 at 09:29 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
> I use various anti spam messages but this spammer took the biscuit:
> -oilandgasremoval@???
>
> Any attempt by any of my antispam software (tmda for example) which
> tries to confirm or deny the existamce of the email address fails
> because exim sees the -oiland.... as a command line option.
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5.3 Command line options
The command options are described in alphabetical order below.
-- This is a pseudo-option whose only purpose is to terminate the options
and therefore to cause subsequent command line items to be treated as
arguments rather than options, even if they begin with hyphens.
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Exactly the same as most other modern Unix software.
--
Frequency Hopping (v.i.):
Avoiding creditors by never staying long at the same address.