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[dufresne () winternet com (Ron DuFresne)]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Damian Gerow wrote:

> Spake David Vincent on 10/10/2002, 13:41:25 -0700:
> > i'm a patient person, but surely the 25+ copies of this spam being sent to
> > the list is enough to get this address banned/bumped for at least a few
> > days?
> >
> > spam sucks.
>
> It's not actually gobbles sending out the message.  Check the validity
> of the signature at hushtools.com.
>
> As discussed to death in the past couple of weeks, if you don't like
> the messages, see procmail(1) and procmailrc(5).

of course this technique is limited, or costly, as it gets rid of the
offending address<s> or subject's, and yet, requires all those responding
to these lame spams to be blackholed too.  Like the one responded to here.
Procmail, while a decent tool does not eliminate the issue in total, that
requires the list maintainers to take action.  Even an unmoderated list
requires some filtering of abusers.  Otherwise, what good is a list
charter?

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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