[ih] spam...

[Joe Touch]

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> "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. 

We will not block HTML. Even if the numbers above were correct, it would 
not solve the problem (foreign language isn't caught even in ASCII) and 
it would raise the number of false positives that require manual attention.

Feel free to install filters on your receiving end, however ;-)

Joe