Spam Filter

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 15:28, jdow wrote:
> From: "Aaron Konstam" <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
>
> > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 16:35 +0930, Tim wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 15:28 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> > I might as well get this off my chest there is one member of this list
> >> > that sends me responses to my list messages at my actual address as
> >> > the primary address but does not allow his e-mail address to accept
> >> > mail.
> >>
> >> Most likely me.  As I've told people before, if you don't want private
> >> messages, don't ask for them with the reply-to header.  It means send
> >> you a reply, it doesn't mean that I can *choose* to send me a reply.
> >> The reply-to header is an overriding instruction, not an option.
> >> Though, in this case, I've wiped it out.
> >>
> >> You're misusing reply-to, you get to reap the consequences for it.
> >
> > I wish we could discuss this off list but you have made that impossible.
> > What I ma asking you to do is to use the reply to list feature of your
> > email program. It does have one does it not?
> > Somehow when I reply to a list post the post goes only to the list. Why
> > doesn't your replies do that?
>
> What's interesting here is that the FC4 list gives about half the
> messages two addresses in the "Reply-to:" field. The other half
> have only the list as the "Reply-to:" field. I am not sure what
> causes this.
>
> {^_^}

Having followed this thread, I feel a bit embarrassed. Complaining to myself 
about spam, it seems I'm adding to bandwidth wastage by normally using reply 
to all when replying to mailing lists. I've just added  "reply to mailing 
list" to Kmail's toolbar, which seems to be the correct way to go. If you use 
reply, or reply to, and the "To" line shows both the originators address, and 
the mailing list's address, both addresses are emailed. Reply all, obviously 
does just that, including anything in CC.  This often results in bounces from 
the mail originator. My crummy ISP that seems to be favourable to spam is 
having DNS servers blocked by SORBS, and others, resulting in bounces, and 
more wasted bandwidth. This is another good reason for using "reply to 
mailing list"

Question: I download email using Kmail directly from my ISP's pop3 server.
I don't get a lot of spam, and can put up with the 419's, "you have won the 
lottery", and so on. The stuff that sickens me is, viagra ads, cialis 
(whatever that is), and how to make your procreation tool larger ads. This 
sort of stuff can turn up in young peoples inboxes, even childrens. Is there 
something I can use with Kmail on FC2, that I DL my mail to, that will detect 
the spam and just trash it. 

I could rant on about the ISP's responsibility to stop spam at source, but 
that's a right waste of time. They are only interested in getting their 
monthly payments from their clients. whether they are spammers, or clients 
with compromised Windows machines, who due to their own stupidity, naivety, 
have allowed their machines to be used by spammers as relay stations for 
spam. End of partial rant.

A tip on how to get rid of the sex spam would be appreciated.

Nigel.