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
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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