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Subject: Re: advanced message filters?
From: "David Gibbs" <gibbs @ mcs . com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 06:15:34 -0600
To: "A. Lester Buck III" <buck @ compact . com>
Cc: <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
Reply-to: <david @ midrange . com>

> My Majordomo mailing list, only 3.5 months old, has already been
> hit twice by the GOOD TIMES hoax (first as a warning about email
> from "Irina", lately for "PENPAL GREETINGS").  I would love to
> bounce for approval any posting that contains both "email" and
> "virus" anywhere in the entire message.  Has anyone tried this?
> Could someone suggest appropriate regular expressions?  Let me
> emphasize that this can happen to almost any nontechnical list.
> I am only running 1.93 at the moment.  Would upgrading help catch
> this type of "helpful" posting from clueless members?

I use the taboo body feature to watch for GOOD TIMES, IRINA, and PENPAL, in
the body of all my lists... it works *GREAT*.

Upgrading to 1.94 would give you access to these features... I highly
recommend it.

David
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