on Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:11 PM +0100, Jérôme Marant (jerome.marant@free.fr) wrote: > Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org> writes: > > > This doesn't help on the valid-outside-postings issue. > > There are lot's of valid postings from non-Debian non-subscribers to the > > list (especially to security@debian.org you really won't want to lose > > such mails ;) > > We can always setup lists a different way w.r.t. some requirements. > > ... > > BTW: Spammers targeting mailing lists will soon learn to grab email > > adresses from list archives and abuse these for sending... > > Why not rewriting any email address within list archives by the means > of an automatical process? > For instance, we could rewrite "a@b" to "a AT b" or "a@_ANTISPAM_b" > and so on, and changing the rewrite rule regularly in order to > make it unpredictable. Because some of us prefer to be reachable by humans. Making *that* task more difficult is conceding to the spammers. I've got a set of filters (spamfilter, which is essentially a whitelist + list filter ruleset), to which I've added spamassassin as a replacement for my own spam heuristics (effective, but a bit too much so). I receive 200-500 emails daily (directly and through lists), perhaps a dozen or so are spam, these are reported aggressively (ricochet, both bound to a mutt alias and automatically triggered for suitably high-scoring spam). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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