[5262] in Kerberos
Re: MAIL LOOP: & Health Care
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Glatting)
Wed May 24 14:20:11 1995
Date: Wed, 24 May 95 11:03:53 -0700
From: Dennis Glatting <dennisg@sickly.cybersafe.com>
To: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dennis.glatting@CyberSAFE.COM
> Date: 24 May 1995 17:06:27 GMT
> From: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
>
> In article
<Pine.SV4.3.91.950524193332.20722B-100000@david.jer1.co.il>,
d_n@jer1.co.il (D'n Russler) writes:
> |> On 24 May 1995, Jonathan I. Kamens wrote:
> |> > Oh, and by the way, ...
> |> > ... the gateway from the
> |> > mailing list to the newsgroup automatically drops empty
> |> > messagse on the floor :-).
> |>
> |> Could the gateway ALSO discard adverts for health care
> |> and other irrelevant things?
>
> 2) Even if there were such filtering, or if you really
> meant that you wanted to filter irrelevant messages to
> the mailing list from being gatewayed into the
> newsgroup, how exactly would you propose the gateway
> detect "irrelevant" messages to filter? It's rather
> easy for a computer to conclude, "This message is empty."
> It's rather more difficult for it to condlude, "This
> message has nothing to do with Kerberos." Do you expect me
> to teach the gateway to read and unerstand English?
>
The gateway could be disconnected.
-dpg
