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gnus: Thwarting Email Spam

 
 9.16 Thwarting Email Spam
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 In these last days of the Usenet, commercial vultures are hanging about
 and grepping through news like crazy to find email addresses they can
 foist off their scams and products to.  As a reaction to this, many
 people have started putting nonsense addresses into their ‘From’ lines.
 I think this is counterproductive—it makes it difficult for people to
 send you legitimate mail in response to things you write, as well as
 making it difficult to see who wrote what.  This rewriting may perhaps
 be a bigger menace than the unsolicited commercial email itself in the
 end.
 
    The biggest problem I have with email spam is that it comes in under
 false pretenses.  I press ‘g’ and Gnus merrily informs me that I have 10
 new emails.  I say “Golly gee!  Happy is me!” and select the mail group,
 only to find two pyramid schemes, seven advertisements (“New!  Miracle
 tonic for growing full, lustrous hair on your toes!”) and one mail
 asking me to repent and find some god.
 
    This is annoying.  Here’s what you can do about it.
 

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· The problem of spam         Some background, and some solutions
· Anti-Spam Basics            Simple steps to reduce the amount of spam.
· SpamAssassin                How to use external anti-spam tools.
· Hashcash                    Reduce spam by burning CPU time.
 

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