"James N. Potts" <jnpotts(a)plutonium.net> wrote:
I administer sendmail for my domain, so I can certainly block it
there. But
the point is, if it's going to be blocked at the MTA level, it might as well
be blocked _once_ at the origin of the mailing list (
gwyn.tux.org) rather
than at the hundreds of MTAs that receive the list.
In an ideal world -- yes. However, as others have pointed out,
it's very nontrivial to write a spam filter that doesn't get any false
positives. Writing a spam filter that gets an occasional false positive
is easy enough, but it's extremely difficult to write one that gets
none. Given the current desires, I don't think there's much more that
can be done at the XEmacs end. Filtering (at the user-MTA or mail
client end) is, perhaps, the only thing that can be done by those
bothered by spam.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo(a)sr.hp.com
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