Subject: Spam filter for pine

From: [email-masked] (EneSys)
Date: 24 May 1997 09:58:55 +0700

Although I do almost all my mail off-line with Yarn, my shell account uses
Pine. Problem is, is it possible to config Pine to filter out spammy
messages *before* they are downloaded? Can I write a filter to detect
spam addresses and/or headline text (ie MONEY, MILLIONS, etc).

Appreciate any help.

Darryl

* Please remove the first "a" from the address
before replying.

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From: Welch <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 11:56:30 -0400

I use procmail to do exactly that.  procmail
is a utility that is on most UNIX boxes.

Type - at the system prompt -

man procmail

to get instructions.  It's fairly arcane and 
rich in features.

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From: [email-masked] (The Shadow)
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 07:27:04 GMT

Well, now that I've read all of the WRONG solutions to your
problem, maybe I can offer you and everyone else a solution
that REALLY WORKS, and not only that, but by using this
method, you will improve the over-all internet performance
by doing it.  The RIGHT solution is to use one of the
outside E-Mail filtering services.  They will remove your
name from the mailing lists BEFORE they ever get sent out
over the net.  They will not interfere in any way with your
normal E-Mail, and they are a whole lot easier, since once
you sign up, you forget about your problem once and for all.

They do charge a small one time sign up fee,  but if your
time and sanity is worth anything, it is very miniscule.  I
have been spam-free for over 2 years now, and if more people
would spread the word about these services, we could pretty
much end this endless discussion forever.  The one I use can
be found at:  http://205.139.105.240/~d_troy/page2.html

[email-masked] (EneSys) wrote in message

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:39:57 +0200 (CEST)

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Due to negligence, on Boomtime, the 1st day of Confusion in the YOLD 3163 
The Shadow let slip the following into my inbox of terror:

This is a usenet newsgroup that is being gatewayed to a mailing list. There
are some people out there who still stick to the netiquette (yeah, you don't
know what *that* is, do you? Just keep posting this and you'll learn it the
hard way...) and postings like yours are *NOT* welcome. You get it?
Disguising it as serious help makes matters even worse and for that alone
you deserve a little mail-bombing, just to see if your "service" is any
good.

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  >Well, now that I've read all of the WRONG 

		NICE AOLISH SYNTAX, DuDE, I LIKE THAT!!!!!!!! 
			ESPECIALLY FROM SOMEONE AS 
			* C * L * E * V * E * R *
				AS YOU !!!!!!

  >solutions to your problem, maybe I can offer you and everyone else a
  >solution that REALLY WORKS, and not only that, but by using this method,
  >you will improve the over-all internet performance by doing it.

The only thing it'll do is decrease the over-all performance of everyone's
bank accounts while at the same time improving yours. Great deal.
  
  >The RIGHT solution is to use one of the outside E-Mail filtering
  >services. They will remove your name from the mailing lists BEFORE they
  >ever get sent out over the net. 

KeWL!!!! How do you know which ones are spam? By reading certain lists that
can be put into a personal kill-file just as easily? Man, you're so smart.
  
  >They will not interfere in any way with your normal E-Mail, and they are
  >a whole lot easier, since once you sign up, you forget about your problem
  >once and for all.

Yeah, right, as long as you keep surfing the KeWL SiTeZ with my money,
wasting my bandwith and generally getting on everybody's nerves with your
commercial *§"(/&.

  >They do charge a small one time sign up fee,  

Of which you get 100%...  
  
  >but if your time and sanity is worth anything, 

...I'll shoot you? Oops, wrong answer... I'll watch you shoot yourself?
Naah, that'd be too good a thing...
  
  >it is very miniscule. 

Sorry, my English be very bad --- miniscule be synonym for $$$, right? While
I get powerful filtering tools and list of pricks like you for free, right?
Great deal. Welcome to my killfile, loser.  
  
  >I have been spam-free 

i.e. brain-dead?  
  
  >for over 2 years now, and if more people would spread the word about
  >these services, 

...you'd be rich?  
  
  >we could pretty much end this endless discussion forever. 

... so rich you didn't need to spam this commercial &%$/&$ over the net?  
  
  >The one I use can be found at: http://205.139.105.241/~d_troy/page2.html

Whoa! I'll report this "thing" to www.homepages.that.suck.com right away.
You're an even bigger loser than I though. Heavens, what an idiot...

flame off -->

Get a life...

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