I was on a list once that required a magic word for each subscription. The subscribe mechanism sent a "logical question" that had an obvious one-word answer that had to be in the body of the reply for the subscription to work. Must've come from a database of maybe a dozen or so questions... like "what color rhymes with glue?", etc. I was also thinking, most spam is HTML these days, right? We could procmail filter messages with HTML tags. Timothy On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Houck thouck at thouck.com www.thouck.com