David dgboles at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 16:20:38 UTC 2010


On 10/7/2010 12:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>   On 10/7/10 11:19 AM, David wrote:
>> But remember that not all blank Subject: emails are spam. Sometimes a
>> Newbie posts like that and it is a legitimate question or problem. As
>> well as the replies.
> The list admins will probably hate this, but it could be more effective 
> for the Mailman s/w to return such mail to sender with the comment that 
> all mail to the list must have a non-empty Subject line. That could 
> actually help the newbies and in general the spammers won't bother replying.


Good idea. If that is possible (I don't doubt you) I wonder why no one
thought of it before now? I like that solution much more than just 'kill
file' or ignoring the post.  :-)
-- 


  David

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