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Re: Affects of the balkanization of mail blacklisting

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnny Eriksson)
Tue Aug 14 09:49:00 2001

Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:47:11 WET DST
From: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:33:36 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.0.997796831.bygg@nic.cafax.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


J.A. Terranson wrote:

> The SPAM problem goes up and down to be sure, but you know what?  PROCMAIL
> is your friend.  All you need to look for are the basics (ADV, Make Money,
> etc) and you can instatly filter 90 percent of this trash into the
> bitbucket.

Oh, so it is OK to filter incoming mail if it contains ADV in the Subject:
line?  Why, then, is it not OK to filter on a list of IP addresses?

--Johnny

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