[Michael Miles]

Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 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
>    
Basic rule here...

No header, no read...just delete