Re: This mailing list is being filtered for email addresses

Nick (Webmaster@indiana.net)
Fri, 5 Jul 1996 22:49:28 +0000


Feel free to ignore this message - I'm just testing your theory. ;)

On 5 Jul 96 at 0:43, Albert Cahalan <albert@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> From: Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk>
> >
> > Well I got one about dieting (I said something about making fat
> > binaries that diet when they knew there host systems architecure),
> > and then got an email about dieting (a just send $xxx to this address,
> > and we'll send you instructions on dieting with out dieting ....).

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> >
> > Well it was via the usenet gateway, so short of killing the gateway
> > for a while, there's not much the list management can do ....
> >
> > Anyone else getting larger than normal amounts of junk email ? (I've had
> > about 15 from 2 acounts in the last 2 months, from none in the last year
>
> Yes, lots. I think I must have said something about byte sex.
> I got ads for some porn CD company - of course now I'll just get more!

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>
> I think the usenet gateway should strip (oh no...) out email
> addresses from the headers, and maybe add a .sig if no email
> address is found in the body (oh no...). Muck with any address
> found but leave it human readable: "albert at ccs.neu.edu".
>
> Then put 66235@some.linux.site in the headers so that appropriate
> flames can be automatically sent to the offenders. The random
> number in the address is to keep them from filtering out duplicates.
> Repeat offenders can be tracked using some kind of cache so that
> they get larger and larger chunks of /dev/urandom each time.
> (a first time offender may have just made a mistake with email)
>
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