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The problem is that most ISP's nowadays either don't allow shell
accounts or don't allow Sendmail pipes to user defined programs.
Brightmail seems to have a good rep though, and it is free for the
individual user.
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James D. Wilson, CCDA, MCP
"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of BENHAM TIMOTHY JAMES
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CP All these silly filtering proposals...
I don't think that the real potential of subject line based filtering
has been seen by all participants. There is no need to change the
existing backbone because the process can be implemented purely by
local action. Each user who didn't want to see spam or clueless posts
(at least clueless posts from newbies) would filter their own email
feed.
On many systems this can be achieved by a simple procmail recipe; on
some it might be directly supplied by email user agents (on usenet trn
will do the trick, for example).
All that is required is that a critical mass of particpants
voluntarily decide
to follow the convention.
Of course if operators wish to extend the backbone with options for
a pre-filtered feed, there is no objection to that in principle.
> Without effecting the backbone or implimenting some sort of regular
> communications channel between operators (both against the intial
charter)
> then all the current proposals are simply bogus.
>
> If the basic backbone is altered from its current status then the
spammers
> and those opposed to the Cypherpunk credo (and democratic thought as
well)
> will have won. It is a an overt admission that speech must be
moderated
> and that poeple in general, and technology in particular, has no
solution.
>
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