Mark, the first thing I thought when I read the subject was: "Oh, no! Another one who overread this lot of 2 pence to this thread and Curtis' request to stop it finally..."
But now to the new subject :=) It should be very simple to filter out a certain hoax: you just have to look for certain email addresses which may have to be updated from time to time. But this would not help generally. I see some things hoaxes have in common: 1. Every hoax, the starting mail - if there was such - excepted, is forwarded. This is very characteristic because the sender always refers to some 'expert'. Forwarding can be traced out in the subject and in the body of the message. 2. Most hoaxes are sent with a lot of 'carbon copies' (CC) either the message itself and/or the forwarded message. Therefore, this can be traced in the header and in the body or in the header of the attached/forwarded mail resp. 3. In my experience, mails with 'yelling' subjects, i. e. capital letters and rows of exclamation marks, are very suspicious of being hoaxes or spam. I guess to protect a mailing list it should help a lot just to disallow forwarding to the list. There are, of course, cases when a subscriber wants to present a question of a friend to the list but this could be done by quoting as well. Anyhow, it is frequently the better way not just to forward in any technical way what the friend has mailed but to reformulate the question. Forwarded messages, however, should not only be blocked but answered with an autoreplier which explains why forwarding is disabled and what hoaxes are. Cheers Stephan If you want to reply to this message, please, do not forget to delete the last part of the subject: "[was: Fwd: Fw: PLEEEEEEEASE READ!!!]"! *This* thread is ended. Thank you! -- Dipl.-Chem. Stephan Tinnemeyer Lindenallee 20 24105 Kiel Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
