spam avoidance (was Re: cpu speed problem)
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Jul 30 18:27:29 UTC 2007
Tim:
>> There's a few other pains that are near the top of my mailing list
>> aggrevations, too: People sending vacation auto-replies to lists with
>> hundreds of members. People using a challenge/reponse anti-spam system
>> on their mailing list subscriptions. Those who do those stupid things
>> deserve a few hundred replies back from the list members. I belive the
>> traditional Unix response is a multi-megabyte core dump.
Les:
> Perhaps in colleges or other places where people who are not mature
> congregate such actions may be deemed proper, but in here???
>
> Lets not get our knickers in a knot. This is a public forum and we
> would like it to remain so. Please keep such tendencies to yourself.
I make the core dump comment more in jest, than anything else. And, I
suspect, that most people probably couldn't do it without some reading,
first.
However, someone so daft as to send such notices to a list with several
hundred members does deserve finding their mailbox stuffed full of
several hundred replies.
--
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
I read messages from the public lists.
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