[10794] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Spam mail (Was Uncensored Web Site Hosting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simone Demmel)
Wed May 7 22:24:08 1997
From: neko@greenie.muc.de (Simone Demmel)
To: frystyk@w3.org (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:26:58 +0200
Cc: kdyer@draper.com, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970507100302.00bd0220@pop.w3.org> from Henrik Frystyk Nielsen at "May 7, 97 10:03:02 am"
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Hi,
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
> Unfortunately it is very hard to filter out automatically. We can block new
> postings to the list from parties sending spam mail but this will not
> remove the "first time spammer".
I know a possibility, it is successful used by the mgetty mailing-list.
It's something liek that:
if you post the first time to a group, you get an answer back, that you
have posted the first time and that you please repost your posting (only
if it's the first time).
Spamers mostly won't post it a second time.
How it is done in details, I don't know, perhaps someone here can imagine.
Or you can ask gert (gert@greenie.muc.de), he is the owner of the
mgetty-list (the list itself is coordinated by someone in .edu, but I
forgot the name - gert knows, I'm sure!)
I hope this helps a little bit
neko
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