Subject: help...

From: James GreyWolf <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:57:53 -0800

The system that I am using is being attacked by an e-mail bomber... if
you know of any filtering or cut-off programs that would stop this crap,
i would be forever in you debt, and I will send the title of the product
to my web owners.

Thank you 
James

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From: [email-masked] (Sylvain Robitaille)
Date: 16 Mar 1997 17:43:55 GMT

>i would be forever in you debt, and I will send the title of the product

No product, just a little bit of your time, and the problem will be taken care
of. What I do is trace the source of such a message, (usually just a simple
examination of message headers, occasionally some deeper investigation
afterwards), and forward it right back to them, with a Cc: to their
postmaster. In the forward message, I include a polite request for the sender
to stop sending me these messages, and for the postmaster to administer
his/her sight responsibly.

If that fails, I send the next one in a similar fashion, indicating that
subsequent messages will simply be sent to the site's provider without further
warning, (I use traceroute to find the site's provider). That hasn't yet failed.

As an alternative, (if the sender is really obnoxious to begin with), you could
simply bounce the messages right to their postmaster without any intervention
on your part. The more obnoxious the sender, the quicker it will get taken
care of...

If you want automatic processing of these, look into procmail. You'll have to
write a simple procmail script, (I'm not sure how to use procmail, but I know
it will be able to handle this), which will handle the messages in whatever
way you see fit.

Hope that helps...

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