I was thinking more along the lines of it being taken out at GP-UK level,
but then again, if that had happened I'd never have found out that I've just
won S$5,500,000.00 in a South African lottery ;-))
Mike
www.equip.ac.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Midgley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 July 2004 12:26
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Spam via GP-UK
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 09:15, North Mike (F81717) Maylandsea Medical Cent
CM3 6AH wrote:
> My NHS net account has been virtually spam free since inception, but of
> late it's beginning to resemble my home account.
>
> Spam is now arriving on an almost daily basis and all of it via GP-UK. Can
> anything be done about this?
Today's appeared to come from a Windows PC at the Rutherford Appleton Lab.
You can add a spam filter - the one built into Mozilla is quite good, Spam
Assassin offers more chance to tinker, Jiscmail and whoever is taking over
from EDS in running nhs.net no doubt have filters they work on.
WHere they are criminal, you can forward them rapidly to the relevant
authorities - I believe there is scope for an automatic system to do that,
but it would need political activity to get a rapid respone out of
law-enforcement authorities in the close vicinity.
Most of it comes under the control of a small group of anti-social people
based around Boca Raton, Florida. I doubt it is worth petitioning governor
Bush or his brother to prevent these businessmen from irritating us, but
addressing the city authorities of Boca Raton might have an incremental
effect. Nuking Boca Raton would be difficult to arrange although it has
been
suggested as an exemplary response, it would also risk the fallout plume
reaching the West Country if not Essex.
As a proportionate response to that element of geographic business activity,
may I suggest we all boycott holidays in Florida in the hope that these
dingbats' neighbours will more rapidly decide they are not people to sell
groceries and beer to.
List-owners could suggest to JISC please that they implement SPF rapidly.
SPF is based at spf.pobox.com and allows rejection of some mails with forged
envelopes.
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Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better
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