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David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Tue May 21 20:45:35 PDT 2002

Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes on 21 May 2002 at 15:45:34 -0700
 > At 01:01 PM 5/21/2002 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
 > >The Dragaera mailing list, dragaera at dragaera.info, is now officially
 > >open for use.
 > 
 > Woo-hoo!
 > 
 > Let's start off off-topic:
 > 
 > >David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net  /  New TMDA anti-spam in test
 > 
 > Is TMDA a joke I'm not getting, or is there actually a useful system for 
 > reducing spam?

http://software.libertine.org/tmda/

Whether it's "effective" is a matter of opinion.  It does require
considerable user preparation, and has the potential to cause great
confusion.  You have to configure it to understand every mailing list
you're on and accept those messages.  It inconveniences new
correspondents very slightly (a confirmation email on their first
message).  Every time you deal with a new ecommerce site you have to
think about things, or they won't be able to reach you.  

But it does reduce spam received a *lot*.

And I'm probably going to reenable it this week.
-- 
David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net  /  New TMDA anti-spam in test
 John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net
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