[Elecraft] E-mail Warning ...

[Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604]

I'd much prefer point-of-use filtering, so I have control
of it. 

And having to login to a forum to send a message doesn't prevent the
spam problem, as I have found. 

73, doug

   Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:02:06 -0700 (PDT)
   From: "Julian, G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>


   It has always filtered on individual words. Perhaps some new words have been
   added. The problem is that email reflectors are an outdated technology from
   the days when spam was not an issue. There is no requirement to log in to a
   system before you can post. You can just address an email to the list
   server. And anyone can spoof the sender address so that a message appears to
   come from a registered subscriber. A spam filter is the only way to stop
   such attempts. Perhaps the one used by QTH.NET is particularly dumb, but I
   don't think any spam filter is 100% accurate.