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SPAM -- V 0.20 Beta - October 26, 1996
Finds originating domain of spam messages and returns message to
postmaster. Automatically places mail in SOUPER packet. Output usable with
other mail software. For PC. Includes DOS and OS/2 versions.
Freeware
BirdSoft Computer Proucts; Rich Veraa; North Miami, Florida, USA.
Love newsgroups but tired of the constant diet of spam? The
crossposted exhortations to make money fast, to buy hair restorer or call
the horny maidens eager to talk dirty. This program helps you do something
about it.
It used to be easy: just bounce a copy to the originating domain's
postmaster and let the perpetrator take his just desserts. That was fine
when a slice of spam showed up in the bitstream only a couple times a
month. Now, with tons of it showing up each day, and countless newbies
coming online thinking it's perfectly all right to advertise whatever
they've got to a hundred newsgroups at a clip, it's getting unmanageable.
SPAM makes it quick and easy to bounce spam articles: just save them
to your hard disk, giving each message a different filename (I use '1',
'2', '3', etc. in a directory called I:\SPAM\ -- but you can use any names
you like). Then run SPAM. SPAM reads the header of each message in the
configured directory, determines where it came from, and creates a message
to "postmaster" at that address forwarding a copy of the original message.
You have a choice of ways to send the forwards SPAM creates. If you use
SOUPER, you may configure SPAM to place the messages in a REPLY.ZIP packet,
either adding them to an existing packet, or creating a new one. In either
case, SPAM is completely compatible with YARN. If you don't use SOUPER,
you may create messages with To: and Subject: lines for easy importation
into your mail editor, or with "mail destination" lines that may be read to
the command line of a unix session.
NEW
0.15 -- An optional manual mode has been added to allow you to redirect
bounce messages more precisely.
0.16 -- Fixed bug in manual mode in three adresses entered.
0.17 -- In manual mode, added check for '@' character in address; if not
present, addresses to 'postmaster@' + name entered.
0.18 -- Bug fix -- subject line was sometimes being omitted.
0.19 -- Fixed bug in manual mode, when correcting 1st address, checks for
'@'.
0.20 -- Fixed packing/unpacking bug.