Re: [Fwd: Meta-issue: recent spam surge]

[Derek R. Price]

David Taylor wrote:

> And don't forget to protect Greg Woods from spam ;-)
>
> bounce_matching_headers for address@hidden:
>
> Subject:.*[^A-Za-z](binary|pserver|links|symlinks)[^A-Za-z]
>
> But, seriously folks, what's wrong with leaving it up to each list member to 
> determine
> what to filter, and to apply the filter through client mail software?

Efficiency.  Proper forum.  All that sort of thing.  Besides, in my experience 
I usually
get a copy of each spam in my personaly mailbox as well as the copy sent to 
each mailing
list I read.

Derek
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