[Cialug] F'n Opt-in Spammers

[Stuart Thiessen]

Why not just create a script that scans your email server (assuming you 
add and delete for other users)  and gathers all of your good email 
addresses and then the script can then deny the bogus ones without 
having to blacklist your whole domain?

Stuart

On Dec 9, 2005, at 13:53, Tim Perdue wrote:

> Wow. I may go back to my prior plan, which was to pipe the 
> tim at perdue.net address into a php script that would /dev/null 
> everything except a handful of known-good addresses (register.com, 
> networksolutions, tonybibbs.com, etc)
>
> perdue.net is already in my blacklist, since so much spam was coming 
> in from bogus support at perdue.net, admin@, blah@, etc, that I had to 
> ban my own damned domain.
>
> Tim
>
>
> D. Joe Anderson wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:33:35PM -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>> Yeah, I think I'm simply saying I understand your argument...I could 
>>> do more to prevent spam from getting past the mail server (and I 
>>> will) but
>> You know, I don't care about what gets past your mail server,
>> sort of like I don't care if you eat fast food that's bad for
>> your heart.
>> But if you litter the sidewalk with the burger wrappers, I care.
>>> I disagree with the standpoint that tools like TMDA are 
>>> reincarnations of the devil.
>> Who said that?  I said they were worse than spammers, because
>> you should know better.  Theology doesn't have anything to do
>> with this, unless you're trying to paint me as some kind of
>> extremist for saying you shouldn't spam people.  That's another
>> kind of uncool, but so it goes.
>>> Agree to disagree, me-thinks.
>> Yeah, well, sure.  You're apparently a lost cause.  But Tim
>> presumably hasn't put it into production, yet, which makes this
>> exchange potentially something other than a pointless yammering
>> back and forth.
>
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