Subject: Pine Wishlist:

From: Christopher Fisk <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:25:00 -0500 (EST)

I've been using pine now for about 5 years and I love it.  I've has this 
same e-mail address for the same 5 years and as such I get *ALOT* of spam.  
I do use spambouncer (http://www.spambouncer.org) and manage to block out 
the majority of my spam (About 30 a day), but I was thinking based on the 
SPAMREPLY=BOUNCE feature in spambouncer that it might be possible to write 
something into pine that you could hit a key That would simulate a 
MAILER-DAEMON bounce message and send it to the spammer in hopes that they 
would assume that the address is no good and remove it from his list.  Now 
obviously this wouldn't work on bogus return addresses, but could help 
with a good portion of my spam problems.

Has anything like this been written?  If not, does anyone know of plans to 
write something like this?

Christopher Fisk

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:43:18 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Christopher Fisk wrote:

> would assume that the address is no good and remove it from his list.

Hrmph. Use the "D" key; a lot less stress (and will have the same effect).

	-Kenny, who can't be up-in-arms over a few extra pieces of E-mail

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From: Christopher Fisk <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:53:33 -0500 (EST)

>	-Kenny, who can't be up-in-arms over a few extra pieces of E-mail

Well, like I said, I do go through the "D" key quite liberally, and 
spambouncer actually manages to filter 99% of my spam to my spam folder, 
but it's an itch I have.  And if I knew an iota of programming I might 
scratch it, was just hoping someone else has already =)

Christopher Fisk

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From: Ed Arnold <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:28:58 -0700 (MST)

I had given thought to writing something like this, before talking
to some people who know a  lot about spammers.  I'm convinced the 
spammers really don't care what bounces back and they don't give
a thought to weeding their lists ... if they can get 80% of the
addresses on their list thru to the recipients, that's good enough
for them.

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:35:49 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Ed Arnold wrote:

> if they can get 80% of the addresses on their list thru to the recipients,
> that's good enough for them.

Hell, I hear *10%*!

	-Kenny