Re: F*cking spam: Forwarded mail....

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:04:17 +0200


On Jun 18, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Differential Form writes:
> >
> > Is anyone else getting this sh!t in their mailbox?
> > I think this asshole spammed the list earlier this year.
>
> Please don't copy the message to the list: some of have spamfilters
> which meant we didn't see this at all, until you graced us with a
> copy. Here is a simple procmail recipe you you can use to filter out
> this particular type of spam:
>
> ###############################################################################
> #
> # Rules for spam sent via various mailing lists. These check that stuff did not
> # appear to be sent to the list, when the list server apparently sent them.
> # This must come *BEFORE* the rules for the lists themselves
> #
>
> # All vger lists
> # Old condition: * ! ^(((To|Cc):)|( )).*linux
> :0 W
> * ^Sender: owner-linux-.*@vger\.rutgers\.edu
> * ! ^(((To|Cc):)|( )).*linux.*@vger\.rutgers\.edu
> /dev/null

be careful with writing directly to /dev/null with this rule!
there are quite a number of non-spam mails (from other (internal?)
mailing lists?) which will be hit by this too.

I use that rule to write mails to a special spam folder which
I check from time to time (and then, mail complains to spammers'
service providers) and at least up to now there are more
real kernel-related mails in that folder than spamms...

Harald

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