In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/19/00
at 12:48 PM, "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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>> From: William H. Geiger III[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> .com> said:
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>> >[Adding CPUNK to the Subject line of all legitimate posts helps prevent
>> >spam.]
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>> [Adding ANYTHING to the Subject line is an annoying PITA]
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>> William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net
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>I heartily agree. However I, and many other users of the list, would like
>an easy way to filter out spam. If you have another method which is
>as simple to implement and as effective, we'd all appreciate hearing
>about it. (Hint: adding extra header lines is not an easy task with many
>mail
>clients).
One could tag the hader lines at the server. If the message is from a subscribed user
(or one of the anonymous mailers) the server could add a X-Filter: CPUNK (or some
other tag) to the header of the messages. This assumes several things:
-- the only messages worth reading are from the "subscribed" addresses
-- you can get the cooperation of all node operators (LOL!!)
IMHO these tagging scheams will not work as it requires a group of people to work
together on something that they are not interested in working together on. If you
could get 1/2 of the subscription base to add the CPUNK tag to the subject line (a
miraculous feat) are you going to stop reading the rest of the list's messages?
I just went through the last 1,084 cypherpunk messages that I have saved. Of those 209
of them I considered SPAM. Of those 209, 98 of them were from the toad.com node. Drop
toad.com and you should loose ~50% of your spam. I would have to say that the vast
majority of the "SPAM" messages are quite obvious from the subject of the messages:
"Quick Cash Secret Banking System"
"CAR'S AS LOW AS �99 PER MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"ONLINE CASINO'S ???"
"For Black Entrepreneurs Only . . . ."
Very obvious stuff here. 99% of the spam I get I can delete without ever opening the
message.
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