Subject: Reply-To header usage

From: John Gates <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:57:08 -0800 (PST)

Having read some of the Spam discussions, I have added a Reply-To item in
my Pine compose header and put "[email-masked]" in it to defeat
spammers (they presumably use the Reply-To info to make bulk mailings). I
have asked others to sub my real logon for the "xxx" when using the
"r=reply" feature. 

Is there a way I can edit .pinerc on the Unix system here to automatically
fill in the "[email-masked]" address after Reply-To: ?

Wonder if all this will do any good!

Thanks guys - I have learned a lot from reading the pine-ino listserv
stuff. 

John

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 Mar 1998 01:25:54 +0200

> John Gates <[email-masked]> writes:

> Having read some of the Spam discussions, I have added a Reply-To
> item in my Pine compose header and put "[email-masked]" in
> it to defeat spammers (they presumably use the Reply-To info to make
> bulk mailings). 

May I politely interject here "braindead"?

    1. Fscking up your header is non-RFC conformant an a major breach of
       the Netiquette.

    2. Messing with your ID will hopefully earn you a swift kick in
       the butt from your postmaster because the messages will bounce
       to your domain. If you think you need to make yourself a jerk,
       fake the domain.

    3. Faking the reply-to is utterly senseless.

Please read Gandalf's Spam FAQ, will you?

> I have asked others to sub my real logon for the "xxx" when using
> the "r=reply" feature.

Please... :-/ You're on a Unix system - use procmail. Nancy McGough's
fabulous Filtering Mail FAQ explains how to do that.

> Is there a way I can edit .pinerc on the Unix system here to
> automatically fill in the "[email-masked]" address after
> Reply-To: ?

No. The new version will (shame on the developers for that). Right
now, you have to recompile with the magic switch (to be found in the
tech-notes). 

> Wonder if all this will do any good!

Back in the good ole days, it would have got you what you deserve namely
**IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM YOUR ISP**
Hi, my name is Jennifer, and I hate to interrupt this message, but I
just had to tell you how much I like taking off my clothes.  I feel so
absolutely hot and
NO CARRIER

Darling, people like you make people like me do that:

(setq gnus-signature-separator
      '("^-- $"         ; The standard
	"^-- *$"        ; A common mangling
	"^-------*$"    ; Many people just use a looong 
			; line of dashes.  Shame!
	"^ *--------*$" ; Double-shame!
	"^________*$"   ; Underscores are also popular
	"^========*$")) ; Pervert!

Think about it and add "-- " as the first line of your signature, please.

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Robin S. Socha