Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 19:37:06 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New Majordomo Feature Message-ID: <36955332.11C5BDD4@aei.ca> References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901080959440.514-100000@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au>
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Graeme Cross wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > >I am normally pretty quiet about spam as making a lot of noise about it > >does little to solve the problem. I know jmb works hard to keep the noise > >down. I thought of a way that we can help him, if it is feasible. > > > >Can majordomo be configured to respond to a new command? > > > >The new command would be "spamthread". Anyone who is a subscriber could > >issue it by sending a reply to Majordomo. Majordomo would read the command > >in the body and then look at the subject header. Majordomo would shunt all > >spamthread messages with the offending subject to /dev/null or perhaps a > >queue for evaluation, banishment, or nuclear assault. > > > >The idea is that maybe the first person who catches one of these threads > >that hits every single list can limit the damage by issuing a spamthread > >command. > > Jason, there is too much potential here for abuse. > > Sick of threads about Linux vs FreeBSD? Spamthread it! > Tired of newbies pleading for help? Spamthread any subject with 'help' in it! > Bored with discussions about WordPerfect? Spamthread them! > > Good procmail recipes reduce spam considerably. Combined with a policy of > closed-list posting, mailing list spam becomes negligible. > > Cheers > Graeme > > -- > Graeme Cross > Water Studies Centre, Monash University Phone: +61 3 990 54089 > Clayton, Victoria, Australia And if there where some kind of "spam killer" user selectionned (just to stop spam, not to moderate). Give them the right to send such a message. -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] [LowRent.Org is down...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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