Allowing remote root login

[Travis Roy]

I know people here don't like topposts but whatever...

Get a spam filter (spam assassin works nicely)
Set up whitelists
Set up those autoresponder things to prove that a real person is sending you
email to auto-add them to your whitelist
Dump emails with words like enlarge and viagra and boobs

Do those and you'll be lucky if you get 1 spam a month.. Just using
spamassassin and some basic header checks I get 1 a day if I'm lucky.

>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, at 3:57pm, invalid at pizzashack.org wrote:
> > Some people seem to feel that the benefit to the public of quoting your
> > e-mail address is more important than your explicitly stated
> wish that the
> > public should not have it.
>
> <FLAME LEVEL=HIGH>
>
>   [insert profanity here]
>
>   And some people feel that by broadcasting your email address to
> the world,
> you're pretty much giving up any hope of keeping it contained, and blaming
> other people for that is freaking retarded.
>
>   Here's a concept: If you don't want people to know your email address,
> don't f**king broadcast it in a public forum.
>
>   This is like the whole "security through obscurity" thing.  You
> think you
> can keep something that is reasonably obvious and easy to obtain a secret,
> you solve your problems.  Problem is, all it takes is one time, and the
> cat's out of the bag.
>
> </FLAME>
>
>   I notice that you've set your headers to list From as
> <invalid at pizzashack.org>, obviously an invalid address.  That makes a huge
> amount of sense to me.  Now you're not broadcasting your email address.
> Much better!  In fact, when I first saw it, I thought, "Wow.  What a good
> idea.  Why didn't I think of that?"
>
>   And it's a hell of a lot more productive then blaming people
> for using an
> email address in an email forum.
>
> --
> Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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