- From: Simone Demmel <neko@greenie.muc.de>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:26:58 +0200
- To: frystyk@w3.org (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
- Cc: kdyer@draper.com, 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 -- neko@greenie.muc.de Simone Demmel Muenchen (Germany) Fax.: 089/354 59 80 http://greenie.muc.de/~neko/ "... Usenet, als das Usenet noch Usenet war, und kein nicht-klickbares Anhaengsel des WWW ..." (Gert Doering)
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