I am up for the baseball bat thing. Are we marketing test rats?
We definitely need some sort of filter.

Apu



"Austad, Jay" wrote:

> The list does not allow posts from addresses that are not subscribed, I just
> tested it.  These spammers are actually subscribing to the list.  Tedious
> for the spammers maybe, but if you think about how many people each list
> address is worth, it's probably worth it for them.
>
> All they really need to do is grep for "\-list" in their lists of addresses
> that they harvest and write a script that subscribes to all of them, and
> have something that autoreplies to them.  Not hard.
>
> ORBS or MAPS is probably the only real solution for this.  Baseball bats to
> the kneecaps might work also, but then you have to find out where they live.
> :)
>
> Some email programs have spam filters built in.  Outlook does, but it
> doesn't work very well.  Most of the emails from managers at my company show
> up as spam.  Maybe that's not a bug though....  hrm..
>
> Jay
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: eric [mailto:eric at urbanrage.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 7:33 PM
> > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com
> > Subject: [TCLUG] can this list be fixed?
> >
> >
> > Can this list be fixed so at least you have to be subscribed
> > to spam it
> > (please)?
> >
> > Eric
> >  eric at urbanrage.com
> >
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