Dick Hoskins wrote:
>
> I find the extraneous mail from spammers to be a pain, but the listserve
> moderator likely cannot do much about it without significant added expense
> with regard to his hardware capacity or investment in his own time, both of
> which I suspect are in very short supply. As far as personal email goes,
It's very hard to legislate morality or stop spamming by asking
nicely. I'm even doubtful that hunting them down does much good
(but I must admit that sometimes when I lose my temper and go
hunting, it is satisfying when I actually bag a 12-point
spammer.) But except in cases of fraud, asking people to send you
money for nothing is not illegal. If the public wasn't so stupid,
and didn't feed the spammers, they wouldn't exist. But I would
hesitate very much to support passage of any Federal laws to stop
it because I don't think that the open model of communcations we
have come to enjoy could be improved through most proposed
legislation I've seen so far.
I'm a big fan of the Delete key and the message filter. What I
don't see I don't worry about.
Also, I am invesitgating a possible solution suggested by one of
our members to install a spam-blocker on the mailing list. This
would consist of a list of stop words, domain names or any other
key phrases found in message headers that are likely to indicate
spam. For example, any mail from earthlink.com of bugfoot.com is
spam. If $$$ occurs in the header, it's spam. And so on. With
this filter in place, any message that triggers this would be
send first to the list owner for approval. If it looks like real
spam with wobbly pink bits and purple tubes in it, you'll never
see it because I'll trash it. Messages that resemble spam but
aren't (the haggis, meatballs and sausage variety) would get
passed after a short wait on the "Group W bench". All other
messages would go through without any interference. I'll let you
know what happens...
- Bill Thoen
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