🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <KARL.90Dec12194010@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
   Mail-based archive servers are a disease which should be stamped
   out wherever they are found.
   ...
   MBASes: Just Say No, because You Don't Know Anything About The
   Links Between Hither And Yon.

Amen.  Say it with feeling, brother!

   A whole slew of CompuServe users appears to have discovered the
   wonders of bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu in the last week or so, not to
   mention not a few other similar addresses.
   ...
   We are considering, for the sake of gateway sanity, aggressively
   blowing away anything that clearly comes from or is going to an
   archive server.  This will require some administrative nonsense
   that I don't like, because I _really_ don't like peeking in other
   people's mail.

That's the lesser evil because

   But we have to get control of the machines again.

is a system and gateway maintainer's first responsibility.  You might
consider implementing a filter to replace the message bodies of the
irresponsible abusers' traffic with a brief explanation of why they
can't take advantage of your service any more.  That way at least they
won't be able to plead ignorance, complain about broken servers, or
bleat about censorship.

Such a filter can probably be expressed as a Perl one-liner, hidden
away in a Sendmail ruleset somewhere.  It's all just line noise :-)