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|    Richard Menedetter to August Abolins    |
|    another one phishing for a bite    |
|    08 Apr 20 08:07:52    |
      REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e331cf37       MSGID: 2:310/31 5e8d6b84       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0200       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08       Hi August!              07 Apr 2020 20:14, from August Abolins -> Daniel:               AA> I think the originators deserve a reciprocation of their own medicine.               AA> I have toyed with the idea of replying to the ones that request        AA> payment, and just send back a message that says, details of payment        AA> "are ENCLOSED in the attachment. Password is the same as you        AA> provided: 1234" ..and send back the file.              And what should that do??       THEY know what they are doing.       THEY can deal with it nicely.              This is much better, and funnier:       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QdPW8JrYzQ               AA> Many of these emails are so stupid. I despise those things. There        AA> should be a away to block them right at the ISP/server side. I would        AA> rather not have them delivered to my mailbox in the first place. Why        AA> can't ISP's block certain ip addresses right on the spot?              On what basis should they do so??              But there is a really easy and extremely effective way!       Greylisting.              It is extremely simple, and since I use it the spam mails dissappeared.              It simply refuses the first delivery of the mail.       The RFC says you need to retry, but the spambots never do.       In effect that gets rid of them.       The price you pay is a slight delay for every mail that you receive from a new       address.              The other/additional method is to set up SpamAssassin.       It scores the mail and if the score is too high it does not accept it.       But it is much more complicated to set up and maintain.              CU, Ricsi              ... All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.       --- GoldED+/LNX        * Origin: Don't cloud the issue with logic. (2:310/31)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/30 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 288/100       SEEN-BY: 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 310/31 280/464 229/426           |
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