Re: mail storm

[chk () border com (C. Harald Koch)]

In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.960813065129.15616A-100000 () dazed nol net>, "Brett L. Hawn" writes:
> We ended up putting filters on port 25 for about some 200 IPs at the cisco
> for quite some time before we could manage to get ourselves off most of the
> lists. This was some 4 months ago and we *still* haven't gotten off all of
> them.

A suggestion for this: Install a mail filter. create a message header that
says:

        From: mailer-daemon@site
        To: <list-sender>
        Subject: Message rejected: user unknown

        the user root@site could not be found

        ----- unsent message follows -----

Then include the original message, and send it back to the envelope sender
field (and/or the header Sender: field) for every 'bogus' message you
receive. This simple trick will get you automatically unsubscribed from
about 80% of the lists. The rest you'll never see, because of your mail
filter, and some administrator will eventually get tired of the bounce
messages and unsubscribe you by hand.

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