Re: Donation For Earthquake Relief Work

From: Colin Faber (cfaber@fpsn.net)
Date: 03/31/01 

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 00:14:11 -0700
From: Colin Faber <cfaber@fpsn.net>
To: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>

I don't know how well that would work, How about just having the list
server read the X-Mailer? 90% of the spam I've seen on this and other
@freebsd.org lists has been X-Mailer tag free.

Chris Byrnes wrote:
>
> > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Colin Faber wrote:
> > >
> > > > Come on guys, This is getting old, Can you block this junk?
> > >
> > > How would you suggest that is done? Magical anticipation of spam posts?
> >
> > Posts allowed only by subscribers? Many lists do it these days.
>
> So the magical spambot subscribes and posts. There's no solution. Just
> click delete yo.
>
> -C
>
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