[107959] in Cypherpunks
Idea to eliminate most spam on mailing lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gutknecht (vw))
Fri Jan 29 22:42:46 1999
From: "Stephen Gutknecht (vw)" <VW@i405.com>
To: "'cypherpunks@cyberpass.net'" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:32:37 -0800
Reply-To: "Stephen Gutknecht (vw)" <VW@i405.com>
Why don't we just require the list software to look for a specific string at
the start of a message.
For example, the phrase "crypto is good" must appear in one of the first
three lines of a mail message.
The phrase would be known by people... easy... but throw off any automated
spam. Wouldn't this eliminate most of the spam to mailing lists?
