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From: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT (or, zapping please-add-me messages)
Message-ID: <490@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 08:06:31 EST
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.490
Posted: Wed Feb  5 08:06:31 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 20:51:39 EST
References: <12179952512.9.MRC@PANDA> <1950@uwmacc.UUCP>
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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Summary: Automation as a weapon against ignorance.

In article <1950@uwmacc.UUCP>, rick@uwmacc.UUCP writes:
> In article <12179952512.9.MRC@PANDA> (Mark Crispin) writes:
> >     There have been too many "please delete" messages sent to
> >this list, from ninnies, twits, and cretins ...
> 	The same problem is evident in 
> 	HUNDREDS OF OTHER MAILING LISTS

The best solution I've seen was done on the old Emacs mailing list at
CMU maintained by James Gosling.  He used a mail filter feature of
their mailer (MM?  Anyway, you can do it with .forward on Unix
w/Sendmail or V8) to filter out all messages containing the word "list"
and send them to the -REQUEST mailbox instead of to the main newsgroup,
digest, or remailing list.  If such a message is actually being posted
(rather than being a misdirected request), the moderator can just
reinsert it a little bit later.

Remember to ignore captalization of "list".  If you get lots of
messages filtered, try restricting the search to just the subject
line.

If anybody writes this little program for Unix (maybe start with a PD
version of "vacation"?), please post it to mod.sources when it works.
-- 
# I resisted cluttering my mail with signatures for years, but the mail relay
# situation has gotten to where people can't reach me without it.  Dammit!
# John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,nsc}!hoptoad!gnu    jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa