Re: An idea to limit the spam ... CPUNK

2000-07-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
Automated filtering is censorship. We don't want censorship. This is nonsense. Censorship is performed by government entities. Last I checked, there's no state action here. Don't like it? Start your own list. But don't whine. -Declan PS: Even your "predictable permutation" of

Re: An idea to limit the spam ... CPUNK

2000-07-12 Thread typo
If someone has a better and simpler idea, I'd like to hear it. just get the nodes to filter mails that don't have CPUNK in the subject, and send the originator a mail explaining why his mail bounced... This is superior to clientside filtering, because the junk doesn't eat bandwith, and no

Re: An idea to limit the spam ... CPUNK

2000-07-12 Thread Francis Litterio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just get the nodes to filter mails that don't have CPUNK in the subject Hashed and rehashed. Some anonymous remailers strip subject lines. If the keyword is at the end of the subject, some mailers truncate long subject lines. If the keyword is at the front, then

Re: An idea to limit the spam ... CPUNK

2000-07-12 Thread typo
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:54:28PM -0400, Francis Litterio wrote: BUT ... does a predicable permuting of the list address constitute automated filtering? I think not. It's no more automated filtering than is the trivial intelligence test that the list currently requires of all posters