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Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:01:56 -0500
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At 12:45 01/27/2003 Monday, Stan Horwitz wrote:
 >On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Anita Cohen-Williams wrote:
 >>
 >> Is there any way of filtering him by just putting his name (rather than his
 >> e-mail address) in the filter?
 >
 >If your list is being hosted on a system that runs Listserv 1.8e then you
 >might be able to achieve what you want by setting up a content filter. The
 >documentation on L-Soft's web site should have info on content filters.
 >
 >The reality is that as soon as this pest figures out your new filtering
 >method, he'll change his name as well as his email address. Moderating
 >your list for a little while would probably be more successful at making
 >this interloper lose interest in your list.

Depending upon your "pain" sensitivity, new subscribers could have a new
default list-option of

DEFAULT-OPTIONS= REVIEW

In fact several of the lists that I manage does have that option.  Then
as time and circumstances allow, we manually issue:

QUIET SET listname NOREVIEW FOR good_poster@host

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