On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:
> > <I know a lot of these mailing lists are gatewayed to a newsgroup in a
> > <special bit.listserv hierarchy. That might me a good idea for this group,
> > <as the volume of messages here as gotten too unwieldy for e-mail. (I have
> > <over a thousand messages unread from this group alone).
> >
> > I for one hope not. The few groups I write to that are a a constant source
> > of junk mail from the spammers that parse them.
>
> I have a cure for this!
> telnet localhost 19 | mail spammer_at_wherever.com
> Let it run for awhile, then ^C it after about 10 minutes...
That only works if the spammer uses a real address. Most don't.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
Received on Mon Jul 21 1997 - 15:24:57 BST