Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses
Jacob Anawalt said:
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> One major concern that I've lightly touched on and will bring up again is
> ?What if I want to have other people contact me off list?? You wouldn't
> want to post your non-list-only email to the list, that would be
> counter-productive. There's got to be a convenient way of providing a
> source for people to look up your email address that is very resistant to
> scripting it's harvest for the UCE/worms/etc. One idea that comes to mind
> are images of pictures with your email address on your web site. I keep
> thinking that PGP/GPG should be able to help in some way, either by adding
> to the EHLO command set or something on the users web site. There have to
> be better and still simple ways of doing this that make it cost much more
> to find our email addresses than it costs us to filter the junk.
>
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I'm still thinking that an email address that only recieves email from the
list is a possible solution for those who have control over mailserver
settings, or rotating email addresses when the spam hits the fan for those
who dont.
My current wild though is this, I find my old gpg private key (or make a
new one if I can't find it or it has this email address) and start signing
stuff. I have the list only address that I use to reply to the list and
recieve from the list, but if gpg savy people really want to talk to me,
they look up my email in my public key. I could even hint in my .sig that
if you need to talk to me, look at my public key.
Either it will be too hard for people to do, or it catches on and viruses
ship with gpg embeded. :)
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Jacob
Trying out SquirrelMail
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