[Cialug] F'n Opt-in Spammers

[Tony Bibbs]

I refuse to believe that 3-4 people per month incorrectly read this 
email and still respond:

"Hello, this is an automated response from the e-Mail server ran by me, 
  Tony Bibbs. In an attempt to reduce the amount of spam received, I am 
requiring that people interested in contacting me verify their email 
address.

I realize that this may be a small inconvenience but you will only need 
to confirm your email address this one time.  Thereafter your email will 
be happily accepted as normal.

Please take the time to verify the address, 
<%(confirm_append_address)s>, is really yours by simply replying to this 
message using your mailer's "Reply" feature. If you don't want to do 
that, simply send an empty email to %(confirm_accept_address)s.

If you do not respond to this confirmation request within 
%(pending_lifetime)s, your message will not be delivered."

--Tony

Academician Kula wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:47:38AM -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> 
>>Ok, I've been running TMDA happily now for nearly 9 months and I'm 
>>*very* happy with it as it's eliminated nearly all my spam.  However, 
>>I'm still amazed at the number of idiots that will confirm the TMDA 
>>message to get spam through.  Naturally I take them off the confirmed 
>>list and add them to the blacklist.
>>
>>My question, however, is there should be something I can do with these 
>>a-holes.  I mean, they are legit email addresses which, IMHO, means 
>>there should be something more substantive I can do since they aren't 
>>spoofed addresses.  Is there?  Granted this only happens a few times per 
>>month but it still really angers me.
> 
> 
> 
> Wait, spammer A sends a message to you with random person B as the sender,
> and you are dismayed when random person B incorrectly answers the question
> "is this spam"? I'm really not sure how you can make a distinction between
> legitimate e-mail addresses and spoofed e-mail addresses simply by looking
> at whatever random bit of text gets put in the "From" line in a message
> header.
> 
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