From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 3:35: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCEB37B400 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 03:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17NA8Y-000GQ4-0V; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:34:58 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:34:45 +0100 To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: I hate to bring it up again (spamming) References: <200206260922.34870.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> <20020626101156585.AAA781@empty1.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20020626101156585.AAA781@empty1.ekahuna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Someone, quite probably Philip J. Koenig, once wrote: >On 26 Jun 2002, at 9:22, Mark Rowlands boldly uttered: > >> On Wednesday 26 June 2002 1:00 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote: >> > As pointed out before, the problem is exacerbated by the unusual >> > scenario of 1) not requiring membership to post and 2) not blocking >> > file attachments by default. >> >> I rather think the presumption is that if your are smart enough to subscribe >> to freebsd-questions, you're smart enough to employ some local method to deal >> with spam. :-) > > >Actually you are making some incorrect assumptions, ie that everyone >is receiving individual messages, not digests. (I almost always >subscribe to list digests rather than individual messages) No idea if it's even possible but how about stripping attachments just from the digest? True it wouldn't eradicate the problem but surely that would at least reduce the load for digest users who can't filter spam. Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message