Message-ID: <45mo4d$6kd@rip.psg.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:10:21 -0700 From: Randy Bush <mailto:randy@PSG.COM> Subject: Re: Recent spammers To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> writes: > You don't understand how a spam works:
> A perl script takes a .newsrc files which has all newsgroup on a system
> and fires off a message to all groups in the file. There is nothing you
> can do against this. They can easily change the subsject to something
> inconspicous.
You may want to learn about moderated lists and moderated newsgroups. And about mailing list processors which do not allow contributions by non-members.
Then again, you may not.
> I have suggested, several times, a way proposed by John Quaterman to block
> this. What you do is to make the email list only take messages from
> subscribers.
Funny. That is what the poster with who you told "You don't understand how a spam works," said.
<sigh>
-- Randy Bush <mailto:randy@psg.com>