[Devel] RE: spams

[Ken Hancock]

> > Now I am getting more virus emails than real emails from this list.
> > The solution for this is simple: disallow attachments sent to the 
> > list.  I know you filter attachments over a certain size, so most 
> > people already have to post web links in order to show anything.
> 
> This might be indeed a solution.  Under Unix-like platforms 
> it is very easy to embed and extract a uuencoded archive 
> directly within an email body.  The question is a) whether 
> people like this and b) whether this works sufficiently 
> comfortable on non-Unix platforms also.  Another suggestion 
> is to disable all HTML emails which aren't in the 
> `alternative' format, this is, providing the same email as 
> both plain text and HTML.

This method worked very well for me in managing the uw-photo mailing list.
I disallowed all HTML that did not also have a text version and actually ran
a script to reject and resubmit all HTML posts sans HTML.  The later is a
little draconian, but did keep the list spam-free.