On Tue 02 Sep, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Tue, 2 Sep 1997 19:05:27 EST
> From:    larryjn@JUNO.COM
> Subject: Greetings
>
> Dear friend:
>
> Hope you had a wonderful Labor Day Holiday!  Realizing you have to go back to
>  work, would you like to
> gain more financial freedom?  This is the easiest home business you will ever
>  see!!!
>
> COMBINING the power of THE INTERNET and NETWORK MARKETING,
> this opportunity is hitting the mass consumer/opportunity-seeker like no one
 has
>  seen before.
>
> You can make $400-$14,000/month in your spare time!!!
[snip]

Why o why o why can't the piclist be run on some other listserver
application, so that some filtering can be implemented?  Like

 1  Do not allow postings from anyone not subscribed to the list
 2  Filter and process unsubscribe (and unscribe:-)) commands
 3  Filter out off-topic messages so that users can SET OFFTOPIC OFF
 4  Filter out messages that score too high on
     - CAPITAL LETTERS
     - Exclamation marks!!!!!!
     - $$$DOLLAR$$SIGNS$$$$
     - Sequences like "easy business", "network marketing",
       "make $*/week", "move all names in the list up", "in your spare time"
       "completely leagle" (sic) etc. etc.

The server could then reply with a helpful message (sO tHAT mIGUEL
cAN rEPOST hIS mESSAGES).  I'm sure that writing a listserver application
shouldn't take more than a few days, really.

Frank
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