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From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne) Subject: 60 Poot ze-a cheekee in de-a oofee! On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Damian Gerow wrote: > Spake David Vincent on 10/10/2002, 13:41:25 -0700: > > i'm a patient person, but surely the 25+ copies of this spam being sent to > > the list is enough to get this address banned/bumped for at least a few > > days? > > > > spam sucks. > > It's not actually gobbles sending out the message. Check the validity > of the signature at hushtools.com. > > As discussed to death in the past couple of weeks, if you don't like > the messages, see procmail(1) and procmailrc(5). of course this technique is limited, or costly, as it gets rid of the offending address<s> or subject's, and yet, requires all those responding to these lame spams to be blackholed too. Like the one responded to here. Procmail, while a decent tool does not eliminate the issue in total, that requires the list maintainers to take action. Even an unmoderated list requires some filtering of abusers. Otherwise, what good is a list charter? Thanks, Ron DuFresne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything.
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