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Date:      Tue, 20 May 1997 22:53:51 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler), current@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usregsite.com 
Message-ID:  <199705202053.WAA27039@grackle.grondar.za>

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On Tue, 20 May 1997 11:06:01 -0700 (PDT) , Archie Cobbs wrote:
>  - Any time you get a SPAM email, you forward it to the list
>    "moderator", which can either be a human or a perl script.

How do I stop <my_enemy> from getting _me_in this?

>  - The "moderator" extracts the relevant identifying information
>    from the SPAM email (e.g, a certain domain name in the "From"
>    address, etc). Here we need a good algorithm or else a
>    knowlegable human.

Lots of work for said human. Forged SPAM will be a hassle.

>  - Each day you receive via email a procmailrc(5) file snippet that
>    will send all mail coming from any of the registered spam sites
>    to /dev/null (or perhaps your favorite email enemy).

I like this. It is, however, an opt-out, not an opt-in. Better
than nothing.

M
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