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 This