Wednesday June 16, 2004 Send that SPAM Away!!!
There are a lot of advantages in running your own mail server. A big one is the ability to decide what to filter and what to let through.
Sometimes, it is easy to decide. Porn: spam. Enlarging different parts of my anatomy: spam. Financial scams: spam. A message from my sister about her ongoing pregnancy: not spam. Spam Assassin and procmail are great help in keeping the tide of spam away from my inbox.
But spammers are persistent and sometimes they manage to slip through. Including a persistent email campaign from a certain Frank Czeck advertising some form of pyramid scheme that keeps going through my filters. I guess that I could go ahead and email Frank (if that's his real name) to ask him to stop. That would only encourage more spam from dear Franky.
An other option would be to use technology to rid my inbox of that garbage. So I added a rule to my .procmailrc file. I'll be sending his emails straight to my SPAM folder which I'll use to train Spam Assassin. The beauty of this approach is that I never have to see Franky's emails again.
One last thing. Frank, I am not interested. Period.
-- Fred
( Jun 16 2004, 08:22:57 AM MDT ) Permalink