RE:'Ryan Speed' english text only?

[EXT-Corcoran, David]

How bout finding another listserver that supports spam filtering?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vishal Jain [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:22 AM
> To: 'Daniels, David'; 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo'
> Subject: RE: english text only?
> 
> 
> Guys, how do we control who is subscribed? Like I am 
> subscriber I can start
> putting spam! Anyone can subscribe to our list, so 
> disallowing from external
> sources will not work, as the spammer can become member and 
> spam. They may
> flood the list before admin can take them out from the list. 
> But yes! Spam
> is becoming a much bigger issue here and we need to do 
> something for this.
> One bet is to disallow all the mails that are not in normal 
> character set,
> but that will limit even the normal subscribers from 
> japan/russia and other
> countries that have different character set. There gotta be a 
> way to clear
> up this mess.
> 
> Vishal Jain
> ILX Systems
> NY
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniels, David [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:59 PM
> To: 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo'
> Subject: RE: english text only?
> 
> 
> Agreed. We can't seem to get the list managers to take action, though.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Speed [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:51 PM
> To: 'cvsInfo'
> Subject: RE: english text only?
> 
> 
> It seems to be a trend lately, I'm on a few lists that get 
> spammed with
> this bullshit.  I think the best bet would be to disallow mail from
> people who aren't subscribed to the list.
> 
> ryan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden 
> > On Behalf Of Eric Siegerman
> > Sent: March 19, 2002 10:38 AM
> > To: cvsInfo
> > Subject: Re: english text only?
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Leif Hanack wrote:
> > > i'm new to this mailing-list and i'm wondering myself why 
> i receive 
> > > mails with strange characters in it. i guess it is japanese 
> > or stuff 
> > > like that.
> > 
> > It's spam.  The rest of us don't want it either!
> > 
> > > nevertheless, how can i get rid of it?
> > 
> > I wish I knew...
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > |  | /\
> > |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        address@hidden
> > |  |  /
> > "Outlook not so good."  That magic 8-ball knows everything! 
> > I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
> >     - Anonymous
> > 
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