Re: [Rmail] Fighting spam

[Eric Brown <brown@fastmail.com>]

This has nothing to do with a "spam filter" for Rmail.

It is a service to annoy phishers enough that they may go away.

Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> writes:

> You mean pictures sent as e-mail messages?  It shouldn't have any
> problem with them either since the e-mail got to you you can send it as
> an fwd if necessary as a mime attachment to me@rescam.org and let the
> bots have fun with your spammer.
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2018, Xavier Maillard wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 13:10:58
>> From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
>> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: [Rmail] Fighting spam
>>
>> > Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 09:51:36 -0400
>> > From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>> >
>> > Forward spam to me@rescam.org.  You will protect more than yourself
>> > doing so.  That service will redirect the spammer so it responds to the
>> > rescam.org service specifically and when that happens the rescam.org
>> > service has a bot that wastes so much of the spammer's time it ends up
>> > costing the spammer money.
>> >
>> > This doesn't just work with a single e-mail package either.
>>
>> Noted it but it won't help for figthing in input, will it ?
>>
>> I found rmail-spam-filter. Just reading its info page.
>>
>>