ANST - YOU'VE BEEN rejected

[Rick Wynne]

Ouch, you make my head ache soundly but I respect you for your obvious
expertise. Forgive me ever doubting you.  *grin*

Brother Richard of Tyre


On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Pug Bainter wrote:

> Rick Wynne said something that sounded like:
> > When a solution is found, perhaps it could be forwarded to the other
> > kingdom mailing lists.
> 
> There are several methods.
> 
> The current of which is to have the mailing list software filter based
> on content. It will then forward the message on to the list admin for
> approval or rejection. This was already being done for such items as
> list administation commands (subscribe, unsubscribe, etc) as well as
> known spew from either misconfigured sites (CC:Mail) or vacation programs.
> 
> In the case of this particular MMF scheme, it always has David's name in
> it, so I just parse for it and have it listed as taboo. Other taboo
> items are any message with the word 'scam' in it, 'MONEY' or 3 or more
> '$' in the subject, the US Postal phone number in the message, etc. (They
> use the US Postal number to tell people to call to verify that it's
> "legitimate".)
> 
> In addition, I am working on installing the latest sendmail beta, which
> has several different types of filtering based on known domains, IP
> addresses and users that spam. Other methods can be found at such sites
> as:
> 
> http://spam.abuse.net/spam/tools/
> http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html
> 
> Feel free to pass on these message and/or sites to whomever you feel can
> make use of them.
> 
> Ciao,

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