From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 7 19:17:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20342 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:17:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20337 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:17:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-110-1.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.110.1]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA23054; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:15:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36955332.11C5BDD4@aei.ca> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 19:37:06 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au CC: "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: New Majordomo Feature References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Graeme Cross wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > >I am normally pretty quiet about spam as making a lot of noise about it > >does little to solve the problem. I know jmb works hard to keep the noise > >down. I thought of a way that we can help him, if it is feasible. > > > >Can majordomo be configured to respond to a new command? > > > >The new command would be "spamthread". Anyone who is a subscriber could > >issue it by sending a reply to Majordomo. Majordomo would read the command > >in the body and then look at the subject header. Majordomo would shunt all > >spamthread messages with the offending subject to /dev/null or perhaps a > >queue for evaluation, banishment, or nuclear assault. > > > >The idea is that maybe the first person who catches one of these threads > >that hits every single list can limit the damage by issuing a spamthread > >command. > > Jason, there is too much potential here for abuse. > > Sick of threads about Linux vs FreeBSD? Spamthread it! > Tired of newbies pleading for help? Spamthread any subject with 'help' in it! > Bored with discussions about WordPerfect? Spamthread them! > > Good procmail recipes reduce spam considerably. Combined with a policy of > closed-list posting, mailing list spam becomes negligible. > > Cheers > Graeme > > -- > Graeme Cross > Water Studies Centre, Monash University Phone: +61 3 990 54089 > Clayton, Victoria, Australia And if there where some kind of "spam killer" user selectionned (just to stop spam, not to moderate). Give them the right to send such a message. -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] [LowRent.Org is down...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message