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Date:         Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:40:48 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Great Solution for Spamless Open List!!
Comments: To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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At 12:15 PM 4/18/2001, Max Wellhouse wrote:
>How about having vanagon spelled backwards in the header?  Might stop spam
>from someone targeting this list?


Max, these folks aren't targeting the list.  They're just looking for the
0.1 per cent response from the two million mails they send.


>  Dunno.  Another alternative is to change
>the required word each month.  Don't laugh too hard, you'll hurt my
>feelings.


No need, see above.  800 seems like a lot of people to us; to them we're
just a statistical flyspeck.




David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"
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