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From: Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Spam filters
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:02:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9703171202.AA62628@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Patrick Audley's message of Sun, 16 Mar 1997 14:19:38 -0800 (PST)

Hi,

>>>>> On Sun, 16 Mar 1997 14:19:38 -0800 (PST)
>>>>> Patrick Audley <paudley@pobox.com> said:

 Patrick> 	I've received a couple of messages now from some sort
 Patrick> of spam reply bot ( I've tracked it down, it's available at
 Patrick> http://www.compulink.co.uk/~net-services/spam ). Most of the
 Patrick> messages were in reply to spam that only peripherally
 Patrick> touched our systems. This program: Extracts a list of
 Patrick> address for relevant postmasters Prepares a reply containing
 Patrick> relevant legal/moral messages Includes a copy of the spam
 Patrick> Sends it to all the postmasters and the end target.

 Patrick> 	I love this idea! A couple of key strokes and off the
 Patrick> message goes. Maybe it could even score down the message.
 Patrick> Does anyone else think this would be a valuable feature for
 Patrick> gnus?

It is already. This is exactly what gnus-junk does. Please take a look
at <http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426626/gnus-junk.html>.

If enough people find it useful, perhaps Ye Mighty Maintainer might be
pursued to include it in Quassia.

	Robbe

-- 
Robert Bihlmeyer	reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!
<robbe@orcus.priv.at>	<http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426626/sig.html>


  reply	other threads:[~1997-03-17 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-16 22:19 Patrick Audley
1997-03-17 12:02 ` Robert Bihlmeyer [this message]
1997-03-17 14:09   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-03-18 15:36     ` Robert Bihlmeyer

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