At 11:03 AM 9/1/03 +0200, Andrew Thomas wrote: >> b) realize that the distributed method you suggest already >> exists - it is called procmail(*). >Procmail serves no purpose by itself. It requires no small >amount of effort on the part of the administrator to utilise >for any type of systems implmentation, and thus administrators >with limited time (common in smaller companies) will rather rely >on (flawed) projects than self-initiated implementations.
The "overworked small netadmin" will simply use someone else's scripts. Not hard. >> (*) or you could setup a dummy email account on all > >The above is useful information. Specifically, the recognition >of duplicate mail receipts is a concept that is new to me, though You're behind then. Putting "harvest this and get blocked" email bait is common practice, eg on websites with addresses. I don't suppose you've ever heard of fake streets in maps (cartographic watermarks) to detect copying?