On Wed, 9 Aug 1995 21:06:41 -0500 Winship said: >First, though, I'ld like to make clear than when I speak of getting spams >which I block, I do not mean I get a notification that Eric's spam filter >has blocked the things, I mean they are sent to me for approval. UBVM has >had the spam filter almost since Eric released it, and in the intervening >months I have gotten one, and only one, notification that an item has been >blocked by the spam filter. I assume this is because AUTOCAT is near the >beginning of lists of largish lists which these people use so I get them Douglas has it pegged right. Spam will often get through to advanc-l and arie-l, but almost never to cdromlan, circplus, libidaho, postcard, and other "further down the alphabet" lists I own. Guess what we want to do is have our lists with names at the END of the alphabet instead of the beginning, the opposite of conventional wisdom for being in the phone book. o-) My biggest hassle now is spam from Usenet gateways, but since I've got all from usenet filtered to me, biggest problem is the folks who reply on the newsgroups and then i have to pass on their stuff. A couple of prolific posters from Usenet have been convinced to sub and set nomail and to send their "replies" direct to the list. It has come about not by me beating on them....but by their frustration at delays in getting their words of wisdom posted quickly when I get behind or am out of town without a net connection. cheers cyclops Dan Lester Internet: [log in to unmask] Network Information Coordinator WWW: http://cyclops.idbsu.edu/ Boise State University Library Boise, Idaho 83725 How can one fool make another wise? 208-385-1235 Kansas, "No One Together," 1979