Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

[Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:28:06PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > How about ensuring that all addresses on the Debian keyring are
> > > whitelisted by default?
> > As well as all gpg signed mail?
> Spammers are starting to use faked pgp signature tags. The system should then
> decode the signature, testing its validity, with the overhead and delay it
> will produce.

yuck, that would serve to bog down every mail server :-(

I like the qsecretary idea better:
- You send mail to a list.
- You get a reply by a program that reads along the lines: If this is
  spam, you agree to pay each recipient on the list $250 per message.
  Reply to acknowledge that you sent the mail, and that you agree to
  this principle.
- If it was you, and it wasn't spam, then ok, you reply, and your
  message gets released to the list, and your email address is
  whitelisted for a certain amount of time (configurable). If you
  keep sending messages often enough, you stay whitelisted. If
  you don't, you have to start over.


Best,
--Toni++