[Defunct [EMAIL PROTECTED] address replaced.]
Kurth Bemis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> can we place a filter to reject all incoming messages that dont have
> CPUNK or CPUNKS or something in the subject?
Why pollute the subject line? I'd suggest that people just filter
postings which don't have CPUNK in the subject line by themselves and
leave the list nodes out of it, but that will probably just encourage
people to do it, and it isn't very asthetically pleasing, particularly
if only some people do it.
Just add a X-CPUNK (or whatever becomes standardized) header to the
messages, then score down, delete, or filter messages which don't have
that header. This "CPUNK" business in the subject line is no better
than Choate's "CDR: " header, and it is totally transparent. It's
not controversial as it doesn't force people to participate in this
filtering. It's also portable, provided that the remailers will pass
arbitrary headers.
Another good idea may be to filter postings which are addressed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yet another thing to do -- though this only works if your mail reader
supports some form of scoring mechanism -- is to score down postings
based on some criteria, as well as scoring other postings up. When you
go to read the mail, sort by thread, then sort the threads by
collective score. It's a sort of one-man reputation capital system. I
used this on USENET back when I used to read it.
Say that you like all of Tim May's postings. You score his postings
+5. On the other hand, you dislike all of Lucky Green's postings, so
you score him -5. You find that AOL users rarely have anything
coherent or useful to say, so you score them down -20. On the other
hand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is someone you like, so you set him +5. You
neither like nor dislike me most of the time, but you hate it whenever
I mention grammar, so you score any posting written by me with the
word "grammar" in it -1000 and blow it away. Meanwhile, you happen to
like postings which mention hackers in any sense, so you score those
up +10. If Lucky Green sends a posting about hacking, it's still +5.
It's nowhere near as complex as it sounds. I haven't tried doing it
on this list, but it should work. Of course, it won't solve any kind
of bandwidth problem.
