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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:27:03AM -0500, Alexander Wilson wrote:
> 
> On Mar 24, 2004, at 12:18 AM, Steven Champeon wrote:
> >postmaster@ should exist if you get mail at that domain, and it should
> >be monitored, along with abuse@.
> 
> Huh. Did not know that. I had mine turned off for a few months because 
> I was just getting two or three times the spam (everything doubled or 
> tripled) and never anything legit.  Guess I'll have to reactivate them. 
> Thanks for the info.

I do some filtering on my abuse/postmaster addresses; in effect, I don't
accept non-plaintext email. It cut the spam down enormously, though I do
still get the 419 scams and the occasional plaintext spam. I figure
there's nothing wrong with refusing HTML email - I can't read it here in
mutt, anyway (and yes, I know I *could* config mutt to do it, I choose
not to). My experience has been that anyone reporting abuse with an HTML
mail message generally isn't clued in enough to provide anything useful,
anyway.
 
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