[thelist] [OT] Spam traps

[Liam Delahunty]

Samir M. Nassar wrote

> I'd like nothing more than to bog down spammers with crap.

Problem is that the bouncing emails still take up bandwidth, so slowing down
the internet for us all...

I get at least 5 emails a day from Korea to an account I don't think I have
ever used except to dial-in. For that alone I hope they crash out of the
world cup in the first round... :¬P

Sometimes I report spam to spamcop http://spamcop.net/, most of the time I
just delete it, I trend to use IMAP email accounts now so at least I only
get the message the once, and not both home and work.

If Spam really does bother you, it would be fairly trivial to set up filters
in your email package, or use something like http://www.procmail.org/ on the
server.

See also http://www.spews.org/

Kind regards,
Liam