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Re: HEADS UP: I'm blocking Yahoo!: msg#00607

Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I'm blocking Yahoo!
On Monday, 24 February 2003 at  9:02:50 -0800, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Saturday 22 February 2003 19:18, Santos wrote:
>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>> I've just received the following spam from Yahoo!, not for the first
>>> time.  I've complained in the past, and have had no response.  So: I'm
>>> blocking them.  They're no longer the good guys in my eyes.
>>>
>>> If you are using Yahoo!, you will not be able to send mail to me.  You
>>> will be able to contact me if you put a yahoo.com address in the
>>> Reply-To: header.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>
>> Why not a whitelist? I seriously doubt that the spamers will reply.
>> And the people with good intentions will be able to contact you. It
>> will cut spam in a efective way.
>
> So will SpamAssassin, and without resorting to killing the
> messenger.

You're missing the point.  This message was send by Yahoo!, not an
anonymous spammer.

Greg
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