I just read a very interesting paper[1] about spammers who harvest
Usenet for email addresses.
The conclusion is that spammers only look at the From: field, and that
you should basically use a spam filtered address in your From: field
and that it is safe to use your standard email address in the
Reply-To: field and in the message body.
Anyway, I don't worry too much about spam anymore since I have started
using Gerald's whitelist thingy. By the way, Gerald, I think that
playing around with procmail rules to try and refine the filtering is
a step backwards: you basically do allow spam to get in again, and
even if now it does not work badly, I don't expect it to last.
1.
http://www.sisterray.nl/abuse/spamtraps.html
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