[ih] spam...

[Perry E. Metzger]

"David P. Reed" <dpreed at reed.com> writes:
> At 02:53 PM 1/20/2003 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >Reputedly there are now filters in place on the list -- I suggest that
> >HTML tags be added to the filter list.
> 
> Some of us aren't Luddites who fear every innovation like the
> villagers in Frankenstein.

Neither do I, but if you're doing blocking on a mailing list, 95% of
the spam has html and 95% of the legitimate mail doesn't. Holding html
until it can be manually approved is a very useful anti-spam technique
-- the NetBSD mailing lists, which I help run, do this, and it works
beautifully. 

-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com