Mrco wrote:

> Yes. I am seriously proposing to look, or at least put a request on the web 
> pages, for somebody who can do it.

> I suggested something based on subject and sender, so it would work in
> i), iv), v) and vi).

You conveniently ignored the critical thing in my message.

Post the procmail recipe that you think does what you claim can be done.

> I have also already answered about how the subject-less messages should be 
> treated. It's much easier: just discard all of them,

Ah, so you go for the "let us prove that we are a big faceless
corporation who does not care about you, because we have more money in
the bank the the gross national product of the country you live in
approach".

>At some point you have to be realistic about how meaningful some
effort is and draw the line.

High touch solutions are not easy high tech solutions.

The _correct_ way to win hearts and minds, is to use High Touch methods.

> In other words, there are humans who check all messages from
> unsubscribed addresses to block spam?

> But a lot of spam comes without subject, just like a lot of real questions 
> from unsubscribed users.

a)  Less than 1% of the spam I get t this account has no subject line.
I'm guessing that more than 1% of the messages on the various OOo
lists I am subscribed to have no subject line.

b) I suspect that a Bayes f(?sp) filter could detect/eliminate more
spam than relying on the lack of a subject line.

>So, what do the moderators do?

I am not a moderator on any OOo list.  
I have run mailing lists in the past, and currently moderate a couple
on yahoogroups.

I don't have to open and read the messages on the lists I currently
moderate, or used to run, to know if they were spam or not.  [When I
open them, my only question is how much editing I will have to do.]

> So, summing up, probably procmail *could* work even with (some)

"Could" is not the same as "does".

So post those procmail recipes.  I, for one, am waiting to see your
alleged solution.

xan

jonathon
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