[Gllug] Urgent

[Gordon Joly]

At 10:57 +0000 2002-11-30, John Winters wrote:
>On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 08:50, Sudhir Anand wrote:
>> Please do not respond to this message.  Ignore it altogether.
>>
>> On Friday 29 November 2002 22:52, Dr.Tom Tanga wrote:
>> > STRICTLY PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL.
>
>[Nigerian scam snipped]
>
>This is the one kind of UBE I do respond to and am thinking of setting
>up an auto-responder.  They're unique in that they do actually tend to
>have a real reply-to address.  If everyone responded, either with a
>simple, "No thanks" or something more direct, the senders would be
>thoroughly overwhelmed and it might discourage them.
>
>Presumably it should be possible to train Bogofilter to identify
>specifically these.
>
>John

Yes; and then they would respond with....

Fighting fire with fire seems like a bad idea, when the bounces and counter-bounces might expand exponentially. After all, it is all extra traffic? And who pays for that?


Gordo

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