changes at lne.com

[Trei, Peter]

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

Peter Trei


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