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Re: Computer Question -- Spoofed e-mails

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Subject: Re: Computer Question -- Spoofed e-mails
From: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:43:15 -0800
> Sometimes a secondary account can be used for stuff such as this. 

There's four approaches for dealing with spam.

One, ignore it.

Two, run 'throwaway' accounts as you've mentioned.

Three, run your own mailserver or filtering apparatus and throw 
EVERYTHING at the problem - Spamassassin, greylisting, a bunch of 
realtime blacklists, etc.  As things presently stand if you're 
aggressive enough you'll get 99% but you'll also have the occasional 
false-positives, 'real' email routed to your bitbucket as spam because 
it came from a badly-configured mailserver.

Four, pay someone else like your ISP or Postini or Mirapoint to do it 
for you.

Also, turn off HTML, turn off all kinds of rich text in your email. 
Read email plain-text.  It makes spam and phishes almost comically 
stupid-looking.

John.




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