On Mon, 28 Jun 1993 17:44:53 CED <[log in to unmask]> said: >On Mon, 28 Jun 1993 17:39:58 +0200 Eric Thomas said: >>Sorry, but if I added a kludge to LISTSERV for each and every popular but >>broken piece of software in the network, I'd soon end up with a broken >>piece of software myself :-) >Now LISTSERV took some time to write, LMAIL was a few months. You've been >asked this several times so don't you think it's about time to release a beta >version of your MWAND server? Sure you have something like that. I expect >nothing more than: > {...} > * and of course discard notes nobody wants to see anyway with a number of > fake "geez you're right" and "I totally agree" responses to the sender > just to keep him happy I would like to add: * detect and discard notes which contain any language that may be considered abusive, obnoxious, profane, offensive, politically incorrect, or culturally insensitive by any subscriber, OR that dares to imply that Unix or any of its associated protocols, systems, or packages are in any way inferior to their prehistoric predecessors. Senders of notes detected by this heuristic would automatically receive a random collection of even more abusive, obnoxious, profane, offensive, politically incorrect, culturally insensitive, and sneering commentary (in digest form, please) from 58% of the subscribers to the list in question. * detect and discard notes which have been posted to more than three lists, since these are obviously solicitations of some sort. Same result to sender as above. * all of the above features, including the ones proposed by Christian, should be selectable on a site, list, host, user and time basis, with options at each level to override the changes at other levels. Changes to settings should be possible through any IP based protocol including, but not restricted to, Telnet, SMTP, FTP, NJE, talk, finger. * the MWAND package must be installable over the network (again, using any IP based protocol) with absolutely no intervention required by any person making over 25% of the average pay of the associated institution (percentage higher in EC countries and as specified by local ordinance). * package must use no more than 2M of memory * must include WWW-based documentation, which should contain phone numbers of the author's place of employment, place of residence, and place of most-likely location for intake of alcoholic liquids.