----- Original Message ----- From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:52 PM Subject: Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:06:19 -0600, > Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:16:38 -0600 (MDT), > > >"Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > >>Compare this to the "dog chasing cars" method of inventing a new > > >>filter rule that looks through the MIME data to decide if this is > > >>the latest worm you don't want or the kissing picture that you do. > > >>Sure it's cool to be a geek and figure out the rules. If you like > > >>doing this, do it. > > >> > > >..another option is "blow up the road": http://www.ordb.org/submit/ > > > > I laughed at this at first, taking it as a "Jacob, this is about as > > dumb an idea as blowing up the road to your house", but then after > > seeing the link was to their open relay form, I was stumped. > > > > Do you mind shedding some more light on this for me if you were not > > trying to be light hearted? Thanks. > > ..why spoil the fun? ;-) Spam etc needs relaying "roads" to travel > to your box. ORDB also accepts email reports rather than this, uh, > "massive" web form, and I would think mailfilter or fetchmail or > somesuch can be a workable source for a mailto pipe. > > ..a third idea is a to "first check if the same spam relay has been > reported by someone else", ORDB has a 200 host report cap, and > reporting the same box half a bazillion times a day would just DOS > ORDB, which is not quite what we wanna do. ;-) > > -- > ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) > ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... > Scenarios always come in sets of three: > best case, worst case, and just in case. > May I also point out the following idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200201/msg03119.html I think that would make things easier to report spam... Just a FYI. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
