Subject: Re: How do you stop annoying, unsolicited, incoming mail?

From: [email-masked] (Joachim Schaaf)
Date: 9 Nov 1996 14:42:11 +0100

Hi,

Gentleman <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi All,

> How can I stop annoying, unsolicited business opportunity
> mail from reaching me?

The following webpage collects hints about this:
http://www.knet.flemingc.on.ca/~surly/junkmail.html

> Today when I logged in there were 5 mail messages from some
> jerks in my mail box. A few days ago I got a mail message
> from some idiot whose subject line was "Learn how to attract
> women using your tongue".

;-)

Gruss,
Joachim.
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:28:24 -0500

> I know that using elm we can use a mail-bounce feature which will
> clog the sender's mail box ( if everyone used it that is ).

    Pine as such will not help you.  It does not do any preprocessing
of incoming mail.  However, there are tools which will do the job ahead
of Pine, provided you have a reliable method for identifying the mail
you want to trash-can.  You mentioned Elm.  Well, as I understand it,
Elm's filter program can be used standalone to filter out unwanted mail
before Pine opens it.  On Un*x systems, procmail is also widely used
for mail filtering.  Nancy McGough as a lot of good material online
about mail filtering.  I never remember the URL, but I have a link to
it.  If you have a WWW browser, browse my home page and follow the
links to Nancy's good stuff.

    By the way, I strongly recommend AGAINST bouncing spam and junk
mail back to the sender.  It may not do any good, anyway, if the sender
is also prefiltering incoming mail, and it just adds to congestion on
the networks.  Either trash it outright, or complain to the sender's
postmaster.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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