spam avoidance (was Re: cpu speed problem)

[Tim]

Tim:
>> There's a few other pains that are near the top of my mailing list
>> aggrevations, too:  People sending vacation auto-replies to lists with
>> hundreds of members.  People using a challenge/reponse anti-spam system
>> on their mailing list subscriptions.  Those who do those stupid things
>> deserve a few hundred replies back from the list members.  I belive the
>> traditional Unix response is a multi-megabyte core dump.

Les:
> Perhaps in colleges or other places where people who are not mature
> congregate such actions may be deemed proper, but in here???
> 
> Lets not get our knickers in a knot.  This is a public forum and we
> would like it to remain so.  Please keep such tendencies to yourself.

I make the core dump comment more in jest, than anything else.  And, I
suspect, that most people probably couldn't do it without some reading,
first.

However, someone so daft as to send such notices to a list with several
hundred members does deserve finding their mailbox stuffed full of
several hundred replies.

-- 
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
I read messages from the public lists.