From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 20 13:58:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA25577 for current-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 13:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grackle.grondar.za (grackle.grondar.za [196.7.18.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA25543; Tue, 20 May 1997 13:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grackle.grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grackle.grondar.za (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA27039; Tue, 20 May 1997 22:53:55 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199705202053.WAA27039@grackle.grondar.za> To: Archie Cobbs cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler), current@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: usregsite.com Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 22:53:51 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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 -- Mark Murray PGP key fingerprint = 80 36 6E 40 83 D6 8A 36 This .sig is umop ap!sdn. BC 06 EA 0E 7A F2 CE CE