[66412] in Cypherpunks
Re: Banning annoying users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Wed Sep 25 02:57:34 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:09:22 +0100
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: DMiskell@envirolink.org
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199609241158.HAA27269@envirolink.org> (message from Daniel
Miskell on Tue Sep 24 07:58:36 1996)
> The not allowing unsubscribed individuals to post is logical, for a
> time.
This isn't practical for the reason that many people who read and post
to the list are not subscribed to the list. (There are many gateways,
local mail->news gateways, etc. eg point your nntp aware news
reader at nntp.hks.net.)
Either delete the junk, or subscribe to a filtered list if deleting or
not reading posts bothers you enough that you think it worth the risk
that the filter owner filters a few posts that you would have found
interesting.
(killfiling on address is not possible for remailer, and content of
unattributed unsigned anonymous posts is difficult to automatically
filter).
Adam
