On Tuesday 24 June 2003 08:56 am, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 18-Jun-2003/19:25 -0400, Gerry Doris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I just filter them out using procmail. Anyone who sends me those stupid > >messages gets all further mail sent to /dev/null. > > That is unfortunate. I use filters and a homegrown challenge/response > system that operates like this: > > 1. Filter mail from mailing lists. > 2. Filter mail from my scripts. > 3. Delete mail marked by my ISP as spam (scored 10/10). > 4. Delete mail in character sets which I cannot read. > 5. Delete mail from unwanted senders (blacklist/killfile). > 6. Filter mail from known senders (whitelist). > 7. Filter mail that is in reply to a message from me. > 8. Challenge all other mail.
I understand 1-7. But what does 8 mean or do? And do you do all this using procmail ? RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list