On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:07:47AM -0800, Console Cowboy wrote:
Has anyone though about setting this list to only accept mail from it's members?
It's been proposed many times, and each time there's a storm of protest that 1) anonymous remailers wouldn't be able to post (not true) and 2) spam is free speech (arguable when the recipients pay for its delivery). It won't happen any time soon. I filter out most of the spam by sending anything posted to the toad.com address to a seperate folder. The bulk of cypherpunks spam has historically been sent to the old toad address, although that seems to be changing. I also filter spam by running an experimental filter I wrote that recognizes spam text (www.lne.com/ericm/spammaster). Sometimes I forge unsubscribe messages to the spam lists that the cypherpunks list gets subscribed to... I encourage others to do the same. -- Eric Murray Consulting Security Architect SecureDesign LLC http://www.securedesignllc.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5