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From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <>
Subject: RE: [FreeHelp] obscene email
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:10:11 -0500


> Actually, we prefer to let Tim do the complaining to the ISP when someone
> posts something obscene to a list, and here's why:
>
> The idiot at the ISP is apt to get confused and block RootsWeb if you just
> forward the post to the list.<g>

Also, the post that the list members received does not have the routing
headers that show the other ISP what route it took to get to rootsweb.
Not only does this info help find the culprit, it helps avoid hanging an
innocent person whose name may have been forged as the apparent sender.

Since you are using smartlist, do you also use procmail? If so, a recipe
can be written to detect certain words and re-route the message. (In fact
I can give you such a recipe, since I have received attacks like that by
personal email. I felt like taking a bath after writing the stupid
script.)

--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau

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