spamassassin helps lots, but I'm tired of sorting the backscatter ; -)

[Oliver Fromme]

Kevin Kinsey wrote:
 > Anybody got a good way to send an automagic Ping'o'death
 > to a spammer's computer?  Maybe there's a "kick butt"
 > plugin for AmavisD?

Note that, in most cases, it is very difficult to identify
the real source of the spammer.  The "From" header line
and the envelope sender address usually do not point to
the spammer.  Trying to shoot back to those is a very bad
idea.

The only reasonable thing you can do with spam is drop it
to /dev/null.  If it makes you feel better, you can create
a symlink /dev/painful_death -> /dev/null and instruct
your mail filter to drop spam there instead.

Best regards
   Oliver

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In my experience the term "transparent proxy" is an oxymoron (like jumbo
shrimp).  "Transparent" proxies seem to vary from the distortions of a
funhouse mirror to barely translucent.  I really, really dislike them
when trying to figure out the corrective lenses needed with each of them.
        -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer