[Ranjan Maitra]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:20:38 -0500 David <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.  :-)

Excellent idea. I try drilling into students that it is a security risk
to send e-mail without subject. 

Ranjan