Re: mailing list filters?

[Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <jcastro@instant.com.br>]

Lee Revell wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:57 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
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>>My suggestion is: reply with a challenge from any non-subscriber post, and then (optionally) insert the sender in a whitelist so s/he doesn't need to go through the challenge process at every message. There is mailing list software out there that does that -- is Sourceforge's among them?
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>Overkill and too annoying for the casual poster.
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>We could knock out 90% of the spam by banning .gif and .jpg attachments.
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>Lee
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I don't know, my instinct says that's overly optimistic. This particular 
flood of spam happened to be comprised of an image attachment, but 
there's LOTS of spam that's text-only. You can do that, it sure is no 
harm, but I predict we'll be experiencing spam floods again soon thereafter.


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