Hello Dave!

Tuesday December 31 1996 00:42, Dave Aronson wrote to Kay Shapero:

 DA> On this side of the gateway, WHAT path data???  All I can check besides
 DA> the From or Reply-To is the message-ID....

Sorry no can do on the rest due to the mailing list and stuff...

 KS>> Be it noted that the gateop is now filtering out
 KS>> most of the spam

 DA> THANK YOU, GATEOP!!!

Your welcome... and actually I've been filtering for a while..

 KS>> Many people on the usenet side also have access
 KS>> to spam filter software, whereby they can filter out a lot
 KS>> of it, using various schemes.  Making it easy to ignore them.

 DA> I've even rigged up something (a set of NetMgr scripts plus some batch
 DA> file magic) to filter out some spam on this side -- including BOUNCING a
 DA> certain misplaced flamewar!

Please do not bounce messages either to this gateway or other gateways, we have
enough to deal with just receiving the junk once. We don't need it twice.

 KS>> Or of course..
 KS>> (to what I remember of "Bless 'em all", which is probably
 KS>> wrong but what the heck)

 KS>> Filk 'em all!
 KS>> Filk 'em all!

 DA> Er, um, yes, this echo DOES have a topic, sorry... now, to get back on
 DA> track....

 DA>  Filk up, filk up,
 DA>  While I'm in my cups,
 DA>  That's a promise, if I can . . . .

Stephen