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[Paul Mitchell]

Sfi -

How practical would this possible solution be:

Send a note to majordomo at ansteorra.org that says
"who elfsea".  You'll get back very quickly a list
of all the addresses on the Elfsea List.  Then you
could de-filter those hotmail addresses on the 
list, and these "bleep you very much" messages
would stop being posted to the list.

- Galen
Still administering the list,
even from Austin

Matthew G. Saroff wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Vicki Marsh wrote:
> 
>                                                                                                                                                         " statem
> >
> > I know that spamming is getting or sending unsolicited e-mail, but do you mean that you will block out anybody who uses the "Hotmail" provider, or the whole Elfsea list..? Please educate me.  If it is a problem with Arabella's internet provider, then I suppose she could always send the post to the Elfsea list and then I could forward it automatically to you without all the garbage.
> >
> > Hmm... just trying to figure out what the problem is and how to fix it.. As usual,
> Hi,
>         I get about 5-10 spams a day.  About 1/5 of that Is Juno or
> Hotmail.  I route Hotmail and Juno to a "I check this once a week" folder.
> Since I have started doing this, It's been about 8 months, I have come
> across 4 (three of whom are on the Elfsea list) people who have sent me
> email from those domains who are not spammers.  Juno and Hotmail don't
> support spamming, but because they give out free accounts without ID, they
> are favored by spammers, because they can use them once and throw them
> away.
>         When I come across people who use Juno and Hotmail (My travel
> agent is the other one)  I put them on the approved list, and they won't
> get the message again.
>         Unfortunately, there is some header munging so that you
> automatically reply to the list, as opposed to the person posting (It's a
> philosophy of mailing list thing, a choice, not a bug or a mistake), so I
> am replying to the list. I will be posting to the Procmail list (the
> software that does the filtering) to find a solution.
> 
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