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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:16:30AM -0400, Dallas Smith wrote:
>   Has anyone found any ways to stop the (OTCBB) spams?  I'm getting several
> a day across multiple accounts.  They have an unsubscribe option, though you
> have to type in your address, and I don't know what address they're using,
> they keep it hidden, nor do I want to give them any new addresses. 

First thing I did when spam became intolerable was modify my sendmail.cf
to stick a header into the message showing what the envelop sender and
recipient were. Second thing I did was stop trying to "unsubscribe" from
lists I never joined. 

> I've tried sending them to spamcop (http://www.spamcop.com) but you
> really never know if you're making a difference with that.

All I ever get from spamcop is false positives.

> I can filter them out in my email, but I just thought there might be
> some kind of trick to get rid of them like there was with the X10
> pop-up windows.

Don't use email? ;) 

I just started blocking /all/ korean mail. So far, the spam has dropped
by, I dunno, half? Next step is to start blocking anything with any
indication that its origin was a qwest dialup in LA...

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