Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:06:19 -0600,
Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com> wrote in message
<[🔎] 3F71183B.70506@cachevalley.com>:
> Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:16:38 -0600 (MDT),
> >"Jacob Anawalt" <jacob@cachevalley.com> wrote in message
> ><[🔎] 1141.192.168.1.4.1064344598.squirrel@scsi-burn.office>:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Compare this to the "dog chasing cars" method of inventing a new
> >>filter rule that looks through the MIME data to decide if this is
> >>the latest worm you don't want or the kissing picture that you do.
> >>Sure it's cool to be a geek and figure out the rules. If you like
> >>doing this, do it.
> >>
> >..another option is "blow up the road": http://www.ordb.org/submit/
>
> I laughed at this at first, taking it as a "Jacob, this is about as
> dumb an idea as blowing up the road to your house", but then after
> seeing the link was to their open relay form, I was stumped.
>
> Do you mind shedding some more light on this for me if you were not
> trying to be light hearted? Thanks.
..why spoil the fun? ;-) Spam etc needs relaying "roads" to travel
to your box. ORDB also accepts email reports rather than this, uh,
"massive" web form, and I would think mailfilter or fetchmail or
somesuch can be a workable source for a mailto pipe.
..a third idea is a to "first check if the same spam relay has been
reported by someone else", ORDB has a 200 host report cap, and
reporting the same box half a bazillion times a day would just DOS
ORDB, which is not quite what we wanna do. ;-)
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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