I hope you whitelist known regular posters. I subscribe to minder, but often post thru lne. Peter Trei

---------- From: Eric Murray[SMTP:ericm@lne.com] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:57 PM To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: changes at lne.com

The spam load at lne.com is WAY too high. Last month for example there was an average of 96 spams per day submitted to cypherpunks@lne.com. "submitted" means that it was the first time we saw that particular mail. Since the CDR system sends everything to all nodes, that means we got and passed on about 4x that number. 800 spams a day is a waste.

So I have changed the way we deal with CDR mail. We will no longer pass to other CDRs mail that we would not send to subscribers. Eliminating outbound spam will cut our cypherpunks spam load in half.

I am also going to filter the non-subscriber mail more effectively. Lately I have had to check about 50 spams a day to see if they are actually posts to the list. I find one real post every two or three days. Now I will save for human processing only the non-subscriber mail that is PGP signed or encrypted, or that looks like a reply. The majority of non-subscriber mails I've forwarded to the list have been replies. (I'll save everything for a while to make sure my filtering works).

As always, other CDR operators and anyone else interested in running a CDR are welcome to my scripts.

Eric