The point is, if something like that is the answer, great. Put it on
the server, and that's the end of it for everyone. Why should every
user set up the same filters to filter the junk mail?

I think that's a silly way to solve the problem, imo.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-coderpunkstoad.com [mailto:owner-coderpunkstoad.com]On
Behalf Of Trei, Peter
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:23 PM
To: John David Galt; 'Matthew Dascombe'
Cc: coderpunkstoad.com
Subject: RE: Subscriber only posting. [CDRP]

This 'spam problem' is a perpetual topic on both cypherpunks
and coderpunks. Coderpunks was originally a subscriber-only
(indeed, invitation-only) list, but that was dropped a long time
ago.

Personally, I would prefer to see end-user based filtering -
indeed, I deliberately chose a non-filtering cypherpunks
source for this reason. By filtering on the To: or cc: lines,
I get rid of nearly all spam.

We could easily get rid of the rest by Subject: line tags,
such as I have included above. This is used in some
Usenet groups to great effect. It's simple, and it works.

I'll probably subscribe to any new lists which pop up, but
the repeat traffic across lists is getting more annoying than
the spam.

Peter Trei

> ----------
> From: Matthew Dascombe[SMTP:mjmrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:02 AM
> To: John David Galt
> Cc: coderpunkstoad.com
> Subject: Re: Subscriber only posting.
>
> For my money it'd be nice to bring together all of the
> applied/theoretical/coding side of things, probably into one list,
> possibly using some sort of Subject convention to differenciate.
>
> Mj
>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, John David Galt wrote:
>
> > Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> > > I'd like to see two new lists, one list like coderpunks was and should
> > > become again, and another more in tune with theoretical cryptology (I
> don't
> > > know of any list that adequately covers the theoretical side).
> > >
> > > They should perhaps be linked somehow, so that coders and theorists
> can get
> > > together - or just one list that covers both. Both skills are needed
> in the
> > > development of anything useful. No politics, as that is
> well-represented
> > > elsewhere.
> >
> > Just my $.02:
> >
> > It would be nice if people were told to post each message to only one
> > list. I get both cryptography and coderpunks, and too many duplicates
> > as a result. (Not to mention politech, EFFector, and
> interesting-people.)
> >
> > Back to lurk mode.
> >
> >
>

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