Re: Spam (Re: Urgent Investment)
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:05:45PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> Come on, it's only a few pieces every so often. It's not like it takes
> all that much effort to delete it. Actually a lot less effort than
> typing the email you just sent, which could have deleted some 73 spam
> emails (and I'm not even including the shift key you had to hit for the
> *, ? and capital letters).
Several pieces a day on this list recently, which is already hard
to follow without the aggravation of viewing some html message to find that
it isn't a user needing help, but a solicitation in Korean to buy a rice
cooker.
Just now I got another Nigerian spam to an address that I
have only used to 1) submit a bug report and 2) post to debian lists.
Considering countermeasures, I like the proposal on holding mail from
unknown sources, but as we're all volunteers, I am rather sceptical on how
that could succeed without the backlog eventually piling sky high.
As for passive measures, several web interfaces to mailing list
archives have the email addresses disfigured. Maybe that could be a first
start to curb some of the recent abuse?
Greetings,
Michael.
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