Hi,
Firstly, thanks to whoever saw my last message and helped me subscribe.
I've got a question: why do so many of the messages (in the hyperarchive
anyway) have CDR: in front of their subject? Is this some kind of
anti-spam filtering thing or something?
After getting into work this morning and finding a whole bunch of spam
sent to this list I've been busy filtering off everything that comes to
me via [EMAIL PROTECTED] into a separate folder. The problem is
that I'll still see the spam when I look into the folder, and I'm sure
that this must affect anybody who reads this list.
Perhaps we should set up some kind of `authenticator' on the messages so
that spam can be filtered out, either at the user's end or by the main
server. It doesn't have to be secure to work; we could agree to embed
the word CarrotFacedMonkey in every message. Bots that have just read
the address from somewhere would not know this, and the messages would
be filtered.
Some provision would have to be made for newcomers to be notified of
this if they tried to post (like I did yesterday). This would work best
if the filtering was done on the server - messages that didn't contain
the magic authenticator would be sent an automatic reply explaining that
their message was filtered and that they should do this and that to
enable their posts to work.
What do you think?
Gary
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