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[Greg Newby <gbnewby AT ils.unc.edu>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:16:30AM -0400, Dallas Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>   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.  I've
> tried sending them to spamcop (http://www.spamcop.com) but you really never
> know if you're making a difference with that.  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.

I'm cleaning out my spring semester mailbox.  Your message
was in my "spam" folder, so I guess I can respond in the
affirmative to this question.

I use Procmail on my Unix system:

.forward contains:
"|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail"

.procmailrc contains, among other things,
:0
* ^Subject:.*OTCBB
   spam

Which puts anything with OTCBB in the Subject: line in my
spam folder.  Don't copy these lines directly, your
path might be different ("which procmail"); read the docs
for procmail and procmailrc first.

(I changed the subject so I'll see responses).

Procmail is your friend.
  -- Greg