Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'

[Max Blanco]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Max Blanco wrote:

> 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?
> 

Yup: <http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html>

Sorry for the repeat posts.

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