Return-Path: <@segate.sunet.se:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from segate.sunet.se by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0spj0Q-0000ZKC; Tue, 5 Sep 95 00:24 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by segate.sunet.se (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 112EDC09 ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 23:24:38 +0200 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 15:18:50 -0600 Reply-To: Chris Bogart Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Bogart Subject: anti-Spam proposal X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1305 Lines: 26 >We probably ought to do something. I don't want to hear from any more >prospective Russian brides, atomic bomb plan salesmen, or sleazy estate >lawyers. I'm sick of this junk too. Is it possible to add a filter that would automatically look for a particular magic word, line, phrase, or whatever in the post (or in the subject line?), and only let mail through that has that magic word? We could tell everyone what the word was, mention it a lot on the list, and include it in all our posts. It won't prevent specific spams of the list, since anyone could subscribe and find out the magic word, but it would keep the list free of junk that's being automatically mailed to every list in the universe. They simply won't bother to modify their spamware for a single small-potatoes mailing list like ours! If the list software doesn't allow this, does it allow you to call an outside program that does filtering? I'd be glad to help with that part, if people like the idea and the list software allows it somehow. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Bogart cbogart@quetzal.com This computer is Air-Conditioned. Please do not open Windows ----------------------------------------------------------------