Re: The New Spam Filter: the Goddess in Training

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan <dmckiern@weber.ucsd.edu>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Goddess in Training wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 1995 Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote:
>> 
>> No.  They set up the newsgroup with a filter to trap spam, but
>> continued routing the messages to the host for Stev0, so that at
>> least =one= person  would continue to send complaints to the ISPs of
>> the spammers.  Unfortunately, his tolerance was over-estimated, and
>> he's been driven off the system.  It might be suggested that he be
>> contacted, and the situation be explained to him, but he'd probably
>> be really angry and not rejoin; d_rned if we do, and d_rned if we
>> don't.
>
> Is it just randomly selected who gets the spam and who doesn't or is it 
> controllable?  If it's controllable, could I be taken off the list of 
> people who *do* get the spam?  It's not that I don't want to help 
> eliminate spam from the net, but just that I am really too busy to always 
> be sending things back to the postmaster or sysadmin, and I just end up 
> hitting "D" and going on.  Also, my Inbox is already always over its 
> limit, so I'd appreciate the filter going into effect for my 
> subscription.  Thanks in advance.

Oops!  Sorry!  Sorry for two reasons.  First, =you= were not
originally supposed to be getting =any= of the spam.  The program
used a hash-value such that your ID and that of Stev0, had the same
hash value.  So we =were= going to see to it that you got none of
the spam.  But, second, Stev0 found out what was going on, and
insists that he not continue to receive the spam.  Frankly, it's
easier to leave things such that =you= continue to get it, and we
filter it out for Stev0.  Sorry; you're conscripted.  If you don't
like it, then see whether you can work something out with Stev0.

Totally tangential remark, in reference to a different message: The
original for "D_rned if we do, and d_rned if we don't." Is from
=Lysistrata= by Aristophanes, in which one character remarks "So
either with you or without you I am destroyed." (Why am I telling
you this?  Probably some character defect on my part.)

BTW, Stev0, how do you know that it was an "a" and not a "u'? :-)

          It's always Dark.  Light only hides the Darkness.

          Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan           (619) 535 - 0546
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