This would also entail modification of the list software, which 
I don't think is something that they want to do.

Each user's "string" would have to be stored somewhere.


--- Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Email is still more convenient (for users, when the emails are screened :)
> I'm trying to think if there is a simple way to filter out the spam.
> Will this work: since mailing lists require subscription. We can ask
> the subscriber to define a "signature" string, for example, one's own
> signature string, with or without decorations, to form a unique
> signature of one's emails. Then we can write a filter to sit before
> the SMTP server to look for the unique string for all users. If an
> email does not contain a signature string of any of the users, it's
> a spam email. The assumption is that the spam senders won't be patient
> enough to find out how this filter works.
> 



 
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