Subject: Re: E-mail spam adverts

From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 Mar 1996 01:21:16 GMT

[email-masked] (Lucio Chiappetti) writes:
>|> What if a rule kills mails with *vital* info for a user?
> Too bad for whoever sends mail from a banned site !

So when the sys admin sees a spam from aol, delphi, netcom or whatever
then he will ban *all* emails from that site, right?
Of course you never get any emails from them, so why bother?

> The most efficient way would be to detect them at sendmail level and send to
> /dev/null, not to store them into each user's mailbox, and having the user
> agent (Pine) discarding them.  What if an user does not use Pine (here e.g.
> there is a group of people which use SUn's mailtool) ?

First step would be to make everyone use the same mail program.
But I am sure Bill gates will take care of that.

Next step is to force everybody to send their mail to whitehouse.gov.
Then the president himself can select what's good for you to read!
After all he signed the damn CDa thing, right?

Tell you what - send *all* mail to /dev/null!  Bingo - no more mail problems!

In Italy, of course, they have the Mafia to do the killing...

Sven

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From: [email-masked] (Lucio Chiappetti)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:33:09 +0100

In article <[email-masked]>, Sven Guckes <[email-masked]> write:
|> [email-masked] (Philip A Zimmermann) writes:
|> >The intent is to base the spamfile contents upon identifying the spam's source
|> >address and/or the subject line.  The system administrator doesn't read your
|> >email. The system administrator gets spammed. Since the sysadmin is likely to
   [...]
|> So only the sys admin gets to edit the spam file?  And he has to read the mail
|> and update the spam file before other copies hit the users' mailboxes?
|> Don't you know that this means *immediate* action?

   Unfortunately yes.
   There is nothing one can do against the first spam.
   But one can ban any subsequent mail from the same site !
   That would be enough !

  
|> You are imposing the task of constant email scanning upon the sys admin.
|> Don't you think he has enough email to read and things to take care of?

|> Don't you think that a person can take care of his own mailbox?

   Well, the job is best done once for everybody !

   As user, and as surrogate system scapegoat (here "unicuique system
   manager fortunae suae"), I'd like to prevent spams to enter my
   system. The most efficient way would be to detect them at sendmail
   level and send to /dev/null, not to store them into each user's
   mailbox, and having the user agent (Pine) discarding them.
   What if an user does not use Pine (here e.g. there is a group of
   people which use SUn's mailtool) ?

   Can this "spam ban" be implemented at sendmail level ?
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