From maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov Wed Jan 3 17:35:29 2001 Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA51498 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:35:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:34:28 -0800 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.129.8]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 35-62055U1500L100S0V35) with ESMTP id gov for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:34:18 -0800 Received: (from maine@localhost) by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f03GYGh18756; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:34:16 -0800 From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <14931.21640.763041.820815@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:34:16 -0800 (PST) To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: spam filter. fortran X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Because of the unacceptable (to me) amount of spam comming through the sc22wg5 list, I've put a filter on my my mail system. If you want me to see sc22wg5 email, be sure to include the word Fortran somewhere in the subject (like I did here - this is half a test to be sure my filter lets this through). Otherwise, it will get filed with the spam. It was easier for me to do this simple-minded filter than something that, for example, checked against a list of wg5 members. My filter has no effect on the mailing list itself or on its distribution to anyone else. It just filters what gets to me. This applies only to mail via the sc22wg5 list. I am not filtering email that goes directly to the j3 list (because I've rarely, if ever, seen spam come that way - or at least the ratio of valid email to spam is quite high for things directly to the j3 list). Ideally, of course, spam filtering would be done on the server. If that ever starts happening, I'll drop my personal one. -- Richard Maine maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov