[ale] simplest way to avoid a spammer ?

Courtney Thomas ccthomas at joimail.com
Tue Sep 16 17:22:44 EDT 2003


Bjorn,

Thank you for your kind offer of help, which I accept.

I assume you can send the code as an email attachment, if not let me 
know what you'd then prefer.

Appreciatively,
Courtney



Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:

> If your spam is delivered to a machine you have an account on, you could
> use something like procmail. If your spam comes to an IMAP inbox on a
> remote machine, your options are more limited. I researched the options
> recently and, finding none, I wrote my own by modifying a python script
> called isbg (Imap Spam Be Gone). I can now use perl to do custom filtering
> and it's super easy. Let me know if that is your situation and I'll send
> you the code. You could then write a few lines of perl to scan the body of
> the email for the name of this product (I can only image what it might
> be!) and that's all there is to it.
> 
> 	bjorn
> 
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
>>Peddling the same product.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>synco gibraldter wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On 16 Sep 2003 at 4:21, Courtney Thomas,,, wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am continually receiving spam from one particularly annoying spammer
>>>>and have attempted to email requesting that they cease but my email is
>>>>returned as undeliverable. They send this garbage from numerous
>>>>addresses.
>>>>
>>>>What's the "simplest" way to ditch these people, please ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>are there commonalities between the email you're getting?  same sender?  same
>>>subject?  same smtp relay?  anything?  if not, it would be very hard to establish a
>>>"rule" against them, but i assume there is some kind of commonality since you know
>>>it's the same person/group sending them.
>>>
>>>--    synco gibraldter
>>>--    atlanta, ga
>>>--    synco at xodarap.net
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Courtney Thomas
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