From: Martin Janzen <janzen@idacom.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:24:08 +0800
To: mrose@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Government: Home-Business
Message-ID: <9607170008.AA17243@sabel.idacom.hp.com>
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Mike Rose <mrose@stsci.edu> writes:
>>Dear Friend,
>>Thank you for your interest. Please take a minute to read this
>>important information or simply print it out.
>
>I'm getting more and more of this kind of crap sent to me.
>[...]
>How are other people dealing with this?

Since you say you have procmail, you could try something along this
(as yet untested) line:

:2HB
cypherpunks@toad.com
^dear friend
/dev/null

I find that people who address me as "Dear Friend" are invariably
pushing some kind of chain letter, religion, multi-level marketing scam,
or the like.  My real friends _know_ my name.

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Martin Janzen           janzen@idacom.hp.com