spam avoidance (was Re: cpu speed problem)

[Les]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 19:40 +0930, Tim wrote:

> 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.
> 
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.

Regards,
Les H