On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 03:18:00PM -0700, Anonymous wrote:
> >subject filtering's simply the better solution, because it would catch all
> You don't get it.
no,
you don't get it..
a changing list name won't protect from mailinglist<->mailinglist
subscription attacks, nor from people using cypherpunks as a dump place
for receiving passwords from webpages.
of course, after one week the mails would go to nirvana.. but that's one
week of junk.. and the next week it all starts again.
filtering by subject would solve all problems but direct mailbombing.
> This is all, of course, in the long run. But we are here
> because ofthe long run.
you really think spammers will adapt to that, just because of a single
list of (more or less) technically skilled users? get real..
the question is: do we want/need any kind of filtering, and who has
to decide? not me..
--
so much entropy, so little time
