Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arnt Karlsen" <arnt@c2i.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:52 PM
Subject: 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.
>
May I also point out the following idea:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200201/msg03119.html
I think that would make things easier to report spam...
Just a FYI.
Mark
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