What's good for the goose...

Hello all...

I was thinking about some things....like many other people, I really dislike junk email. How they get email addresses to send to is no mystery. So here's the idea. We've started seeing people change their email return addresses so that they can avoid spam. 

I've got a better idea. 

Make your return address "wallace@cyberpromo.com" , that's right... Good old spamford wallaces email address needs a little traffic. You'll want to change your SIG so that people don't freak out on you. 

IN FACT, and although I WOULD never RECCOMMEND THIS.  (notice the enunciation...'nuf said) I would be tempted, if I had the time of course, to subscribe the freak to as many lists as I could find, but of course I would never do such a thing, as that might at the very least make his communication links kind of active, bringing up the price of doing business for him. 


   Just a little idea....

      Chris DiBona


PS: Of course I would never do such a thing myself. This is information and ideas provided for your entertainment only...uh huh...that's right...for sure ;-)

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris DiBona <chrisd@loc201.tandem.com> writes:

Chris> Make your return address "wallace@cyberpromo.com" , that's
Chris> right... Good old spamford wallaces email address needs a
Chris> little traffic. You'll want to change your SIG so that people
Chris> don't freak out on you.

Something that I've been toying with is setting up an alias that all
of the fools who spam somehow get subscribed to.  Procmail then
filters incoming email for spam.  Rejects are redirected to the alias,
rather than simply /dev/null.  Those that slip through procmail get
"bounced" to the alias.  And, of course, there's always the option of
instead piping the spam to a program that sends the mail to the alias
from one of its own members.

Chris> IN FACT, and although I WOULD never RECCOMMEND THIS

Indeed.

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At 06:46 PM 4/15/97 -0400, C Matthew Curtin wrote:
>>>>>> "Chris" == Chris DiBona <chrisd@loc201.tandem.com> writes:
>
>Chris> Make your return address "wallace@cyberpromo.com" , that's
>Chris> right... Good old spamford wallaces email address needs a
>Chris> little traffic. You'll want to change your SIG so that people
>Chris> don't freak out on you.
>
>Something that I've been toying with is setting up an alias that all
>of the fools who spam somehow get subscribed to.  Procmail then
>filters incoming email for spam.  Rejects are redirected to the alias,
>rather than simply /dev/null.  Those that slip through procmail get
>"bounced" to the alias.  And, of course, there's always the option of
>instead piping the spam to a program that sends the mail to the alias
>from one of its own members.

If you REALLY wanted to be evil, you could just find a handy mail to news
gateway and hand off their message to *.test.  Of course most spammers do
not use a valid return address, so such retaliation is not that useful...


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