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Re: Anti spam methodologies (is it the new frontier?)




On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Tim DiLauro wrote:

> If you truly believe it's a spam and you're about to choke them with it,
> try this instead... just say "OK."  Pretend to accept everything and just
> drop it.  No mail gets sent and no one gets hurt.  Except maybe the
> spammer, who, unless they RCPT TO themselves, won't know that the message
> was not sent.  :-)

That sounds like it would have to be against some RFC...an email black
hole.

What about not accepting mail unless it's for local delivery, for an
approved non-local site, or from an approved (your local) domain?
 

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