At 04:26 AM 12/21/96 +0100, you wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 19:38:04 -0500 Philo <[log in to unmask]> said:
>
>>I would think the easiest long-term solution (in the grand scheme) would
>>be to have one  more user setting - "Nospam", settable  only by the list
>>owner; much like the existing "Norenew".
>
>Are you seriously saying that you want a new feature that would allow you
>to tell  LISTSERV to exempt the  usenet gateway from the  spam filter, so
>that postings from  usenet do not need to be  scanned for possible spams?
>:-)
>
>  Eric
 
Well, since one spam from the gateway apparently makes the gateway useless,
then yes. Not sure if you caught the beginning of this: I suddenly started
getting every post from the Netnews gateway bounced to me as "possible
spam" (thus the subject line above). Denizens here reported the same
behavior, said it was because the way LISTSERV works, once a subscriber is
tagged a spammer, all its posts are suspect. Therefore, since Netnews is
just a subscriber, the behavior I saw. Only solution anyone came up with
was to set loopcheck=nospam, which seems to me to be throwing out the baby
with the bathwater.
 
Any other suggestions?
 
Philo
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