Re: spamcop

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 16:15, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 08:21, John Kelly wrote:
> > > For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed
> > > murphy.debian.org.  That's it.  I'm done with spamcop!
> >
> > If murphy is sending spamtraps, it deserves to be listed. period.
>
> Um, nonsense.

Not really!

>
> Best practice for any mailing list is to require email confirmation,
> based on a message sent to the subscribed address (whether the initial
> subscribe request came via email or over the web).  Thus, I can make
> any mailing list server send email to a spamtrap address trivially --
> I just fake a subscribe message "from" the spamtrap address, or enter
> the spamtrap address into the subscription form on the web.

The catch here is that you have no idea of what the spamtrap address is. I 
dont think it is easy for humans to guess what the spamtrap addresses look 
like.

raju