Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:13 AM 6/25/96 +0100, Mark Bishop wrote: >I appreciate that it may be possible to program the mailserver to reject >postings which come from outside the group, but would council against doing so >because we seem to get quite a few postings which are in fact wrongly addressed >or worded attempts to join the group. If their mailings reach the group, someone >can email to give them the correct form of address to get in; if their >contributions are rejected we could lose them. Well, again, the mailserver can be configured to return a message back to the sender saying that the list is for members only and to subscribe to the list, send mail to xx.yy.zz with keyword subscribe. > >No, I tried another tack with our spurious mailer: I programmed cc:Mail 3.0 to >send her an email consisting of the word SPAM repeated 20,000 times, on the >hour, every hour. The first line of the message stated that this would continue >until she promised to stop sending unsolicited material. I am sure it will have >had little or no effect but it sure kept my tiny mind entertained. > I certainly hope most internet users don't do this. The internet has already become so congested. If 50% of the users worldwide send 20000 repeated SPAMs per hour, the internet will be brought to a complete standstill. ------------------------------------ Gang Huang Advanced Communications Technologies Bell Laboratories 200 Laurel Ave. 3B-216 Middletown, NJ 07748 U.S.A. (908) 957-3524 gang@mtdcr.mt.lucent.com ------------------------------------