[Gossip] filmscanners@halftone.co.uk archive

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Hi, For some years mail-archive was archiving this list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to have stopped sometime around May 2002, and no longer appears in the list of archived lists, though a search will find old msgs. The filmscannner list is still active, and mails are still being sent to

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Stephen Turner
Ummm, why can't you just require a list to sign up for the service before you accept any messages from it? Then most spam sent directly to m-a's inbox would be automatically ignored. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ The question of whether a

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Dror Matalon
Hi, As a first step I would add a manual step to the subscription process. So when someone submits an archive, they would need to include *their* email address and they'd need to do the standard thing, click on a url that's included in the email. This, of course, involves some coding effort both

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dan Kegel wrote: Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Running a serious spam filter on incoming mail is too computationally expensive (there is a lot of mail!) but it is an otherwise good suggestion. Unfortunately I know from my own inbox that a lot of spam these days is specifically designed to get around

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Thanks for all the ideas, I'll need some time to mull them over. A quick comment on Pat's astute RBL suggestion - I already do use a fairly gnarly setup for the Mail Transfer Agent, including use of RBLs. It more or less matches Marc Merlin's setup for SourceForge discussed here: