From: "Frykholm, Niklas" <nfrykholm@...>
Date: 2001-10-09T16:48:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22282] Re: This is not wanted. BRITNEY SPEARSNAKED	----WOW!!!!!!

[Hal E. Fulton]
>Actually, what I was proposing (which is likely still
>a bad idea) was that if someone posted something
>with an obvious filter-word like "naked," the poster
>could deliberately bypass the filter by using the
>word "ruby" somewhere.
>
>But that does require a conscious effort on the part
>of the poster and also implies a knowledge of the
>filter. So probably a dumb idea.

Many people use the following setup: If a letter that looks like spam
arrives, "freeze" it and send a message to the sender that the letter was
blocked because it looked like spam. If the sender is a real person, he can
then "unfreeze" the letter by replying to the message and the original
letter goes out to the mailing list. If the sender is a bot, he will
probably not have a valid reply address and will not be able to "unfreeze"
the message.

This way, there is no risk of loosing any real messages.

// Niklas