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Subject: Re: How do we stop the spam...i have one idea...anyone else ?
From: Ken Williams <jkwilli2 @ unity . ncsu . edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:21:03 -0500 (EST)
To: Danny Gumport <dgumport @ dannygumport . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <34EEFA21 . 1FB1A365 @ DannyGumport . com>

On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Danny Gumport wrote:

>All,
> I have also received a large number of junk emails
>that seem to be directed through greatcircle.coms mail
>gateways...seems to have been getting
>worse over the last few weeks.
> The porn advert that was mentioned this morning was one.
> the Talkpower.com one was a public one...
> Seeing as we all care about security - email spam
>is a security threat... how can we all work together to
>stop the name lifters and people who send things to our whole
>list ? the Talkpower ad says to send them mail to get off their
>mailing list but it is addressed to firewalls @
 greatcircle .
  .
  .
 
>can the mast of this last do some scripting that says if there is a
>trailer to request removal that that mail get auto magically sent
>to remove firewalls from the spammers list and to not forward
>it to us otherwise innocent folks ?
> thanks!
>-Danny G
>

why not just configure the mailing list so only subscribers can post? it's
worth any tradeoffs IMO.

ken williams

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