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Re: [DTXpress] Re:Musing OT: "Merge the groups" idea?

2003-07-25 by Stephanie

On Fri July 25 2003 4:28 pm, rdamon@... wrote:
>  Vern,
>
> To bad there's not a way of spooling the post from dtxpress@yahoogroups.com
>  into a buffered or "restricted access" forum that only the
> moderator(system administrator) has access to, so that a moderator could
> preview the post prior to actual posting into a dtxpressions open forum.

There is a way to do that, and (assuming a Unix server is being used to host 
this web site) you can use a utility called "procmail," that is commonly used 
on such servers to examine the headers of all e-mail and either pass or 
delete mail based on the filtering rules established.

Big catch there, though.  Spammers are very well aware of programs like this 
and know how to trick such programs, by putting a dot between each character 
or spacing every other character in the subject header or body of the 
message.  These people are dirty !@#$%&*(&% who deserve to be shipped off to 
the moon without a spacesuit.

Don't do it.  Cut the Yahoos lose.

Stephanie

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