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Yeah, thanks for all your work keeping the list spam free. It is much appreciated! -Kurt '71 AT Square, "Tyria" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ wolfe" <russella@prairieinet.net> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [T3] list change > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:06, Greg Merritt wrote: > > At 3:31 AM -0500 8/17/03, Jim Adney wrote: > > > > > > > I've been doing 1) for a long time -- too-big messages, messages w/ > > attachments, html messages, and the like have been blocked. Lately > > spam has been a problem. I started blocking messages with a rating > > of 3 "!!!" or greater. The cut-off is tough; some crap messages have > > only "!!", and some legitimate posts have "!!!". Either I set it at > > "!!" and let through crap (I won't do that), or have to put it at > > "!!!" and let through the legitmate "!!!" posts by hand -- big delay > > for posts, and extra work for me. > > > > Now I'm trying 2) -- well, 2) *and* 1), actually, in that > > order. First pass, every post is denied *unless* the From: address > > is on the subscriber list (or the hand-maintained additionaly > > approved list). Then the message must get through the good old > > anti-html, anti-attachment, etc. filters. > > > > Fun, eh? > > > Keep up the good work Greg. We all appreciate it. > > -- > Russ Wolfe > '66 FB MT > '71 FB AT > '65 Bug (not running) > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org >