Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:46:40 -0400
Reply-To: Steve Albert <salbert@AOL.COM>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Steve Albert <salbert@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Banning HTML-Spam ?
If we can control the spam by rules on the listserv software, great -- but
I think that will prove difficult to do without filtering software, since
spam can come as plain text, too. A month or two ago I suggested that we
needed some volunteer moderators; at that point one person agreed with me
and volunteered. My guess is that many of us could approve or reject
submissions in ten seconds or so; it's pretty easy to tell the difference
between a question about macro quoting and one about life insurance rate
quotes <g>. A lot of us are probably already spending more time
downloading and deleting spam that gets through than we'd spend if we
volunteered a few minutes a day to moderate the list and keep the garbage
out.
So, anyone else willing to volunteer as a moderator, solely to screen out
the spam? If we have enough interest, we can talk to the list manager to
see how we might work out logistics.
Steve Albert
Director of Biostatistics
Spectrum Pharmaceutical Research Corp.
San Antonio, TX
SAlbert at SpectrumCRO dot com
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:48:58 +0200, Dietrich Alte <alte@UNI-GREIFSWALD.DE>
wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I sent this a second time under different thread:
>
>Re: [SAS-L] How do you take your business to the NEXT LEVEL?
>Sent: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 04:25:16 -1700
>From: One Source <PostDirect@Zapo.Net>
>
>I thought we had banned all mails with HTML-content?
>If not yet --> can this be performed in order to ban spam?
>
>I strongly vote for it.
>
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