Re: permitted cross-posting for genuine FAQs
Larry W. Virden, x2487 (lvirden@cas.org)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:25:20 -0500
>>How do you make these NewsPosts easy to recognize without making
>It's already there. Why else do we have the Approved: header?
>I know that means a bit of work for the spam cancellers: anything posted
>to news.answers should be cancelled if it doesn't have a variant of
>'news-answers-request@MIT.EDU' in the approved header; if that does
>appear in 'Approved:' in addition to at least one '*.answers' newsgroup,
>the message should not be cancelled even if it exceeds some other
>limitation.
Unfortunately, I don't think anything is in place to prevent a spammer from
producing trash having these characteristics. Perhaps some sort of
digital signature needs to be added that can't be faked...
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