I use pop.rb to download emails on a whitelist
then run Mailwasher.exe to bounce the bad guys.
“MailWasher Pro also lets you bounce e-mail back to the spammers so it
looks as though your address is not valid”
Can I do this using Ruby?
Yes, you can, but you shouldn’t.
http://www.pocosystems.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2770
-austin
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:25:04 +0900, andrew davies wrote:
I use pop.rb to download emails on a whitelist
then run Mailwasher.exe to bounce the bad guys.
“MailWasher Pro also lets you bounce e-mail back to the spammers so it
looks as though your address is not valid”
Can I do this using Ruby?
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austin ziegler * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2004.02.06
* 00.06.19
andrew davies wrote:
I use pop.rb to download emails on a whitelist
then run Mailwasher.exe to bounce the bad guys.“MailWasher Pro also lets you bounce e-mail back to the spammers so it
looks as though your address is not valid”Can I do this using Ruby?
No idea how you’d do this, but I’d like to suggest that you don’t.
Because just how many spammers include legitimate headers anyway?
IANASA, (I am not a sys admin) but I know I’ve had my fair share of both
bounces and angry e-mails when someone has spammed someone else using
one a forged sender of my old adresses, and I don’t think it does much
good bouncing spam.
If it goes back to the spammer, they might be able to discern between
legit and manufactured bounces (confirming your adress) or attain more
information about the route the e-mail has taken, and help them abuse
it. Not good. If it doesn’t find its way back to the spammer, it just
means more junk mail flowing thru the wires, bothering innocent bystanders.
Now, if you’re working on a method of tracing those spammers and
stabbing them in the eye with a fork, I’d say knock yourself out. 
Just my 0.02 NOK.
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For a project that aims to stop some of this, check out SPF,
http://spf.pobox.org/
There’s a lot of bright folks on the mailing list, too, and they know
-lots- about spammer tricks and what is effective and not.
Ari
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:25:03PM +0900, Kent Dahl wrote:
andrew davies wrote:
I use pop.rb to download emails on a whitelist
then run Mailwasher.exe to bounce the bad guys.“MailWasher Pro also lets you bounce e-mail back to the spammers so it
looks as though your address is not valid”Can I do this using Ruby?
No idea how you’d do this, but I’d like to suggest that you don’t.
Because just how many spammers include legitimate headers anyway?IANASA, (I am not a sys admin) but I know I’ve had my fair share of both
bounces and angry e-mails when someone has spammed someone else using
one a forged sender of my old adresses, and I don’t think it does much
good bouncing spam.
- Aredridel aredridel@nbtsc.org [2004-02-07 13:13]:
IANASA, (I am not a sys admin) but I know I’ve had my fair share of both
bounces and angry e-mails when someone has spammed someone else using
one a forged sender of my old adresses, and I don’t think it does much
good bouncing spam.For a project that aims to stop some of this, check out SPF,
http://spf.pobox.org/
Just a typo, I think you meant http://spf.pobox.com/
– Mike
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Michael W. Thelen
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the
complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is
not true. – Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference