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Final thoughts from me on Spam. I work for an ISP in Tech Support and have done more than my fair share of spam reporting to various ISPs. Something I noticed, which in all honesty I haven't got round to testing out is the following simple synopsis: Have you noticed how a great deal of spam has something along the lines of: "Get your miscellaneous item here string of characters" I suspect the character string is some kind of identifier for either the individual mail or the batch it went out in. The thought occurs that if a filter were set up to dump all email which had a Subject containing a gap of more than, say, four spaces in a row, that would instantly blitz a heck of a lot of it. In fact I think I'll try setting that up today and see what happens. Kind regards, Julian On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 00:02, Rob Thyssen wrote: > On Thursday 03 Jul 2003 11:34 pm, Keith Abraham wrote: > > > > They report that spam email is choking the Internet. > > > > > > > > Well I've been using Linux off and on since feb 2000 > > > > (continously for the 12mths) and I have only had > > > > 3 (yes three!) unsolicited emails. > > Well on the other end of the spectrum, I get 50 ~ 60 spam messages a day. I > have about 20 or so filter rules in place to take care of them. I also run > custom scripts that examine headers for the spammers ISP and generate an > email to the abuse team. > > [rant] If I had my way, anyone affiliated with the promotion of spam would be > taken outside and shot. First in the knees and then in the head. The only > people I hate more than spammers are the idiots who read spam and then buy > something advertised within, propagating the vicious cycle. Their fate is > best decided by the new penis enlargment / hair growth / debt solution, they > have just acquired. > > I dream of a day when enlightened ISPs will understand that it is more cost > effective to keep spam off their networks than it is to keep investing in the > infrastructure that conveys it. [/rant] > > /rob > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.