[ale] *&^^$& Spammers!

[Geoffrey]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> The ALE list has been getting hit daily with 150-250 unsubscriber spams
> since it was moved to our new hosting facilities. That's all noise but
> tolerable.
> 
> In case anyone is wondering, no, I don't sift through the chaff looking for
> the ham messages. I simply delete them all.
> 
> Between Saturday around 7 pm when I last dumped the turd bucket and Sunday
> at 10 am when I checked again, the bucket had been loaded with
> 
> 6744 spams.
> 
> Yep. 6k+. Mailman is choking on clearing out the crap.
> 
> Maybe as savvy computer people ALE can tackle a social need: educating the
> general population about intelligent use of email, how EVERY OFFER received
> is crap, herbal viagra is fake, stock quotes are a scam, etc.
> The spammers do this stuff because there are people who will fall prey to
> it.

Killing spammers might be more expeditious....

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin