Re: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:43:37PM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > Making valid and useful actions impossible is not the way to fight
> > spam. To fight spam, our spam-masters work quite hard to block open
> > relays, etc.
>
> Alright, I really don't care as long as I don't get it in my mailbox. ;-)
Delete it. It's not that hard. The spammers win if you waste time
talking about them. If you just delete the mails immediately, it's easy.
>
> > One possible technique we could employ is to require that the list
> > address appear visibly in the headers (to: or cc:). This would
> > prevent Bcc'ing the lists which is a shame (and care would need to be
> > taken with -private, which is also security), but it might be worth
> > it.
>
> This is hardly a real solution. Spammers still could post stuff to the
> list.
>
But they never do. [Most] Auto-spam software can't be bothered to
fake the headers for all 100,000 recipients, so they send the same
body 100,000 times.
>
> Do you use Orbs?
Ask the listmasters. I dunno.
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Jules Bean | Any sufficiently advanced
jules@{debian.org,jellybean.co.uk} | technology is indistinguishable
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