I'd wager everyone on this list feels the same way! We're being "spammed".
Does anyone on this list have experience succesfully dealing with this kind
of thing?

- P.J.


"Never mistake motion for progress."
- Socrates


>Hello everyone--
>
>I'm wondering if anyone else has been getting some of the advertisements
>sent over this list lately (like the one I just got for "SexSwap") and if
>they have, if there is anyway we can prevent things like this (definitely
>unrelated to CSound) from being propigated....
>
>Just find it a huge surprise to be perusing the latest ideas only to be
>blitzed with adult advertising...
>
>Anyone else feel the same way?
>
>Thomas Trenka
>tren0009@tc.umn.edu

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, P.J. Sonnichsen wrote:

> I'd wager everyone on this list feels the same way! We're being "spammed".
> Does anyone on this list have experience succesfully dealing with this kind
> of thing?
>
My ISP has filtered out know spam sources using procmail. You can also do
this yourself if you know how to use procmail (I don't know enough about
it to coach you).


This helps somewhat. For instance, I never saw the spam from hotmail on 
this list.

Larry

  

--  Larry Troxler  --  lt@westnet.com  --  Patterson, NY USA  --
  

Larry Troxler wrote:
> This helps somewhat. For instance, I never saw the spam from hotmail on 
> this list.

Another approach is for the list server to allow posting only from
subscribers.  This disallows the occasional legit message, and
requires some fine-tuning for people whose send and receive addresses
don't match, but it does kill spam.

-- 
     Eli Brandt  |  eli+@cs.cmu.edu  |  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/