On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 09:12:00AM -0700, Anonymous wrote:
> If someone has a better and simpler idea, I'd like to hear it.
I use a small perl script.
The script keeps a list of known senders. If a From line is contained
in the list, the message is delivered. Otherwise the script looks up
if the message is a reply to something on cypherpunks (it keeps lists
of Message-ID and Subject lines). If yes, the From line is added to
the list of known senders and the message is delivered, else it is
stored in the spam folder.
The script doesn't protect against determined attacks, but it catches
all the spam, including sparklist.com and all those password
confirmations. It also stops the occasional on-topic announcement
from people who don't read cypherpunks, but those are usually also
sent to other lists (cryptography, remailer-operators, ...).
