Your proposal is unnecessarily complex. The evidence elsewhere is that a fixed string is just fine: spammers don't customize their product to get into every itty bitty mailing list etc. COntinually changing the address would cause everyone to regularly lose posts. > I'm no mail list expert but couldn't the "filtering" YECCH be done by > separating the list address into two pieces? > > The address for incoming traffic for new threads is cypherpunks<random > #>@xyz.com. The address is changed periodically ( or aperiodically if > you prefer ). Stick the current address in a mailto: on some pages > somewhere. This is the address you send to if you want to start a new > thread. It makes the spammers get lots of bounced mail. I don't think > you'd want to mail the address out to all list subscribers on a regular > basis. That might just make it easier to automate the spamming. In fact > you might want to obscure the address in a changing manner where it is > presented so that automating picking it out would be difficult. > > You might need a slight overlap where for some period the new address > and the previous one coexist. That would give people who pick the old > address from the source at the last minute some time to compose and > transmit their mail. > > Responses to existing threads are sent to plain old [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It is used as the reponse address for all outgoing mail headers. This is > where anything that is not a direct response to an existing thread is > discarded. > > This doesn't restrict content or sender or level of anonymity used but > it does make it a bit tougher on the spammers. It seems like it might > lower the volume of spam. > > My half-penny's worth. > > ..... > > I don't subscribe because of the volume but I do read the list on > inet-one and I used to enjoy it. Here's my little statistical analysis > of this week's traffic. I counted what appeared to be outright SPAM. > That doesn't mean that what remains is guaranteed to be of value - it > could be the usual officer friendly wanking off while trolling for > internet high crimes and misdemeanors or amateur physics hour - but at > least it's <possibly> readable. > > total - ~150 > outright spam - ~ 51 \ > discussion of spam - ~ 27 / ~50% > freshman physics - ~ 8 > > It's pretty awful but now I don't feel too bad about adding to the > freshman physics threads. > > Editorial Comments > > My favorite spam - > CDR: Make $46,650 in 90 days with $25 investment, Tyt > > Well thanks for the offer, Tit, but I find NASDAQ enough of a > speculative roller coaster. > > Most Intriguing spam - > CDR: stories, Nessa Everson > > Hello officer pervy. > > My least favorite spams - > CDR > CP > > I know this was discussed heavily a while back but I guess I filtered it > out ( manually ). Where the hell does this shit come from? Who should be > hung for this? There are some nice cottonwoods by the river, I've got > some rope. Anyone care to volunteer the use of their horse for a good > old-fashioned necktie party? > > Hottest new crypto tech - > RAGU's sooper new breakthrough > > BTW, You can buy the Monty Python shows from A&E. They're still funny. > > Mike >
