Frank O'Dwyer writes:
[...] the drivel that comes from some of our more prolific posters is best handled by filtering by the list members themselves. (I currently have 3 of them going directly to the trash. Perhaps aga should get kickbacks from Qualcomm. He managed to sell a copy of EudoraPro.)
It would be nice if each user could install filters on Majordomo itself. Not only would we not need to buy Eudora Pro, but we wouldn't have to pay to download messages we didn't want to read, and without having to employ a moderator (censor).
Bad idea. It's tough enough on the host running a list with 1500 or 2000 people on it. Adding outbound filtering for each user would be a real burden on the list host. It's better to distribute the processing by making the user agent (or mail transport that's delivering to the user) do the filtering. In addition, a filtering majordomo will only 'protect' the lists that it serves. I don't know about you but I get a lot of spam from all sorts of different sources. I need to have a filter anyhow. It's not hard to add some more rules to filter out each lists's bozos. It's a lot simpler to do that than it would be to upload filter rules to each of the 10 or 12 listservers I get mail from. There's also a security issue. How are you going to set it up so that I can't say hack Tim May's filters to send him nothing but posts from Phil H-B and Detwiler? Yea, you can do it with passwords or PGP or whatever, but it's still more overhead. Why bother with it when you don't need to? -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03 92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF