Tom,
Following is the pertinent section =
of the
reply to your inquiry, saying, essentially not that it is technically =
not
feasable, but rather that it's not worth it, because 1. too restrictive =
or 2.
that the word would get out and the rule defeated.
I don't think that either of these =
points are valid
for a list such as this, if a simple inclusion rule were adopted (I =
concur that
the banned word approach is difficult or useless).
1. First of all, despite the fairly =
large number of
VW models and options we enjoy, they are ALL the specific =
"Vanagon", not
the generic "car" or "van" (i.e. the specific "chrysthantemums" as =
opposed to
the generic "flower" or "plant").
2. Second, the danger that the rule =
would be
defeated by spammers is an unlikely scenario: spammers like to =
sent a
standardized E-Mail message to as many million addresses as they can =
find. They
are not in the business of customizing they're spam anymore than
necessary. They won't be including "Vanagon" in their text =
either,
despite the inherent sexyness of that particular vehicle.
The inclusion rule could be =
"defeated" by
legit interested third parties looking for our usual advice in a =
friendly, OPEN
list, as aggravating as some of the stupid questions and postings can
be. The benefit of the simple inclusion list rule would be to force =
the
outsiders to read the rules, as pointed out in Ron's "Great Solution for =
Spamless Open List!!" posting. If they realy want to post to =
the
list, they will have to do their homework.
If it were to become a very simple =
universal rule,
we could all adopt the habit of signing with a reference to our beloved =
bricks
and the vast majority of the vile cybernetic luncheon meat (the canned =
type is
fine), would be out in never never cyberspace where it belongs. It =
might be
a hasstle for list members at first, but I'd rather get used to a simple =
rule
than to endure the #/£~¢%¤* (expletive) were getting so much of =
these
days.
I vote OPEN with simple inclusion =
rule.
JGS
> Conversely, It would also be =
interesting to
only allow posts that did
> contain a certain word someplace in =
the
message..so if I had a list about
> flowers, I would only allow =
posts that
contain the word "flower" to be
> distributed. That way, I could
proactively help the list stay on topic. :)
>
>
>
>
Hmm.. so my 5-paragraph posting regarding blossoms, =
chrysthantemums,
dahlias,
blooms, and petals would be rejected?
>
>
>
>
Anyhow - the nature of the filter would become common knowledge =
very
quickly,
and anybody who wanted to post an off-topic message =
regarding
"purple pigs"
would simply make them "purple pigs with a gratuitous =
flower
reference
crammed into an anatomically improbable orifice".
>
>
> Good generals pick their =
battles.
This is one you can't win, so avoid
having it if you =
can....
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 =
11:53
AM
Subject: Re: >> WET TEEN =
(you know
the rest)
Jean,
It's
a good idea, but is not possible to filter messages by keywords using
ListServ. It's one of the methods I had thought that would be =
effective to
combat SPAM. I was thinking of filtering out all the "four-letter" =
words, and
requiring all posts to include the word "vanagon". On March 27th, I =
posted
this question to ListServ...see this link:
And
I followed it up with a product request to Lsoft.
TomC
Ric and
all,
Wouldn't a simple, not too =
restrictive filter
be that the word vanagon must appear at least once in the body of =
the text,
otherwise simply discarded by the list server?
Now, I know that the vanagon is a =
pretty sexy
vehicle and all, but a very noble kind of sexy and the spammers =
are too
busy to notice, so I doubt they would include it in the vulgarities =
of their
message.
Hmmm... come to think of it, sexy =
vehicle and
all, maybe we could change our orientation and spam others: =
Hot
vanagon action... Hard thrusting piston rods... Hot wet front =
carpets...
Come and Pop your Top... Swivel and rotate... The site for the =
straight or the transaxle... . {;~)
And seriously, I think this stuff =
is offensive
and CLEARLY OFF TOPIC, so let's filter, not limit to members
only.
JGS
----- Original Message ----- =
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, =
2001 7:44
AM
Subject: Re: >> WET =
TEEN P U S
S Y HARDCORE << . . .. .... . ..... . . 3763
Great! Now I know what a Vanagon Slut looks =
like!!
Perhaps the young lady is the infamous LiMBO =
Bimbo!
Seriously, how
many more reasons does one need to put a filter on this
list???
Ric
At 04:35 AM 4/18/01 -0500, ekzawuzowrvtu@HOTMAIL.COM
wrote: