Timothy Atwood writes:

> So you never actually have to use a new email address to start receiving
> spam.

That could explain how I got hit just after opening this new address and
before posting using it.

> Face it, we've all lost the spam war and the spammers have won. Get ready to
> wear out your delete key.

I'm not ready to accept that. I've been tinkering with a sendmail add-on
using sendmail's "milter" capability to convert sendmail to a "permission"
based server. Essentially, if I haven't given your email address permission
to pass-through, it won't. Yeah, it means that I need to build a data base
of people I correspond with, but heck, I get 100s of spams per day and
wading through that much crap to find the "wheat through the chaff" means
I could be losing stuff anyway if the subject doesn't quite catch my eye.

I've entertained the idea of taking unknown addresses and either referring
them to a web page where they would post their mail (and thereby automatically
get entered into my data base) or would simply reject the first attempt
and instruct them to simply reply to my automated response and that would
in turn allow the mail to pass through. If I can eliminate 90% of the bots
out there, then the rest is manageable.

Regards,


M.

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