[PLUG] regex help requested

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Nov 19 20:28:47 UTC 2002


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Percival, Ray wrote:

> Having said that my advice may be a bit extreme. Why not block hotmail. In
> this day and age who really uses hotmail or Yahoo or anything else like it
> for real mail anymore. And if you have friends or whoever that do just put
> them in a "whitelist" and block the rest. But as you can see from the
> above there is a large portion of the species I just don't want to talk
> to. But that's just me.

  There are two problems with this approach -- for me, at least. First, I
deal with lots of digitally challenged folks who use these services because
they're free or because they don't know any better. Not all these people are
bad or not worth communications. I also have clients with accounts at these
domains.

  Second, I have postfix check the entire set of headers because spammers
frequently direct their dreck to my secondary mail server (at my ISP) rather
than directly to me. This also means that a message sent to me as well as to
other folks may have hotmail, yahoo or aol in the header because that's
where other recipients get their mail. No reason to block mail to me because
others are also on the "To: " list.

Rich





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