Re: Spam filter idea: 987uR

[Richard Welty <rwelty@domain.elided>]

At 07:52 AM 8/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Just a thought, what about the possibility of requiring us to put some
>special characters at the end of the subject line when submitting posts?
>Something like my subject line above.
>Then Richard could install a filter to reject anything missing the
>'passcode'.
>I doubt that many spammers would go to the trouble for sending to the
>digest when there are easier targets out there.

i think it's fairly impractical; many of you would forget it from time to
time, and we'd have to train new subscribers.

i've done other things in the past that seemed like good ideas, but which
turned out to be administrative nightmares. i fear that this would be similar.

richard