dtonon on Nostr: I forgot to tell the background story: technically, this is a rewrite. I built that ...

I forgot to tell the background story: technically, this is a rewrite. I built that same piece of software in the 1998-1999 using visual basic; I remember that little window with an ugly text box where I would paste the headers, and a button to fire the reply email.

Yes, there were spammers back then, too; email has always been a bit of a mess, especially now. That's another reason why Nostr exists

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Here's a small CLI utility I built: #Outis fights spam by generating and sending a fake "user unknown" bounce for an email you received, so the sender believes your address does not exist.
This should work well for the recent trend of AI-generated automated emails, where the sender may expect a reply; it helps to clean your email from their list.
But it's also useful for dealing with annoying contacts :)



I've been using it for 3 weeks, and the noise seems to have decreased slightly.

More info, sources and linux/mac/windows binaries:
https://github.com/dtonon/outis