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Re: [ldapext] Majordomo results: Japanese girl VS playboy
I agree with Bob that human approval of subscriptions and only allowing posting by subscribers is the only way to nearly completely eliminate spam, but things like spambouncer for procmail can eliminate most of it.
Rob
Ed Reed wrote:
>
> What we need is a turing machine...something like eliza, that can open
> up a dialog with message submitters and bully them into saying
> something
> on-topic...
>
> no, that's not the right way...
>
> maybe she could engage them
> in a constructive dialog that discerns whether they have anything
> useful
> to contribute...
>
> no, that's too restrictive...
>
> But surely she could respond better than majordomo did ;-)
>
> Isn't it about time someone got some value out of all those natural
> language
> AI research grants???
>
> Hey, Mark - could we spin up an engineering team to look at this???
> (;-)}
>
> Ed
> >>> "RL 'Bob' Morgan" <rlmorgan@washington.edu> 05/14/02 11:29PM >>>
>
> > I thought moving LDAPEXT to a moderated list was supposed to help
> with
> > this, but it looks like things are no better (at least).
>
> I don't believe it is a moderated list, it is merely a different
> address
> than the widely abused @netscape one.
>
> > Any ideas what to do next?
>
> I think the only way to reduce the spam significantly is to permit
> posting
> only to subscribers, which implies approving subscribers, and having a
> way
> to approve any on-topic posts by non-subscribers (per IETF rules). Ie,
> a
> human to do this work. Any volunteers?
>
> - RL "Bob"
>
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