Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'

[Max Blanco]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, JoeHill wrote:

> 
> Haven't we all had thoughts like this? LOL!
> 
> "SAN FRANCISCO -- Call it spam rage -- a Silicon Valley computer programmer has
> been arrested for threatening to torture and kill employees of the company he
> blames for bombarding his computer with Web ads promising to enlarge his penis."
> 
> http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61339,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

He must not have been familiar with procmail.
A script like this *may* (or may not) have saved him from going postal:

# cat > .procmailrc
:0:                #delete spam
* 
^Subject:.*(prescription|meds|medication|xanax|valium|viagra|pharmac|enlarge|penis)
/dev/null
^d

<http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32894.htm>

Is the regexp match case-insensitive?





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