Potential solution to spam

From: Paul Burkhardt (burkhard@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 29 1997 - 12:56:13 PDT

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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:56:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paul Burkhardt <burkhard@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Potential solution to spam

Hi List,

I forgot who is in charge of the list while Rick Walker is away so forgive
me for posting this here.

I have thought of one way to block out the spam mail that our list gets
from time to time. When posting messages, include a 'key' letter(s) in the
subject line, such as "CP". The list manager can then write a simple
script to filter any messages which does not include the key, such as he
does now for postings with no subject at all.

One other way is to only accept messages from members of the list.

Paul Burkhardt

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