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Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:20:36 -0800
From:	David <david AT kalifornia DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: unsolicited e-mail
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Reply to mail from Paul Derbyshire about unsolicited e-mail
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>>of course, blocking @aol.com is going to stop 99% of it.  it seems aol
>>exploded into spam central again recently.  i'm very close to applying a
>>corporate blackhole list locally AND TO RBL, AGAINST AOL if aol doesn't
>>take steps to make spamming from them less lucrative.
> 
> There are 2 problems with that:
> 1. Legitimate beastium users on AOL will get blocked.
> 2. A lot of spam has AOL forged in the from: line but really came from
> someplace else...

1) unfortunately, true.
2) RBL would only affect real connections from AOL, not faked.

this would be fixed by making the list subscriber only with non-subscriber
bouncing to a moderator.  the moderator can then further automate by
rejecting "FREE $$$" type emails with procmail; "pgcc ..." automatically
getting sent to the list...etc.

-d
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