From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-10T17:36:12+09:00
Subject: Re: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 02:57:14PM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> It seems that 90% of the spam at ruby-talk is from Nigerian Generals or 
> bankers trying to share their fortune with us.
> 
> Could we setup a spam filter that automatically deletes emails whose 
> bodies contain the word "Nigeria", and the $ character in the near 
> vicinity of the word "million"?

I vote against.

I would rather delete the occasional spam manually than have to wade through
discussions of how rule-based filtering should be configured on the mailing
list every time a different piece of spam gets through.

You can always implementing rule-based filtering at the client side if you
wish.

Regards,

Brian.