[Talk] Combatting spam (was: (no subject))

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 12:05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I've just grepped for mail from verestar.net in my entire 1.2 GB of
> saved mail.  The only messages were spam, so I've added verestar to my
> private mail block list.  See http://www.lemis.com/lemismail.html for
> more details.  What do people think of doing something similar for
> AUUG?

I think black listing will probably work in this case but I think it is
a bit a) heavy handed, and b) indiscriminate.

Also you could find out that 2 years later you can't remember why it's
in the black list :)

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