On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 04:43 Australia/Sydney, Peter L. Peres
wrote:

> Run a filter at your ISP (set up by yourself or commercial). The best
> will
> not delete the spam directly but save it in a special folder. You get
> to
> view the headers once in a while and delete them.

My host has a filter which I do not utilise effectively enough, however
it simply deletes unwanted mail. I asked if we can send an autoreply
then delete, and they said it can't be done.

The major problem I see with this approach is that the spammers are
still chewing up bandwidth on the way to my server. I never know
exactly how many tried to get through and the spammers never know that
I never received their mail - so they just keep sending and sending
those addresses to their mates.

The problem with having your own domain is that you get a lot of emails
to fictitious email addresses - such as 148xt346@yourdomain.com - so
obviously the have not crawled for mailto: addresses to get these. They
have simply fabricated something.

The answer I am sure is going to be simple! :-)

Regards,

Sean

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