Re: Spam on lsb lists

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>]

gk4@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> >And lots of people (have to) use several different addresses,
> >subscribing with all of them isn't really an option, since you get
> >multiple copies of each mail then.
> 
> Before I started using Lotus Notes, I had an "slocal" MH script that would
> filter out multiple email messages.   I would take the message id from each
> incoming message and compare it to the contents of a 100 message FIFO list.
> If I recently received a message with the same message id  then I would
> throw it away, otherwise, I would save the message id and let the email
> pass through to my mailbox.   I don't have the script anymore, otherwise, I
> would give it to you.
> 

A news server will do this beautifully.  A newsreader really is a much
better interface to mailing lists, too, since they're designed for
many-to-many communication.

	-hpa

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