Ger Apeldoorn wrote: > As I understood, the Razor system does not blacklist anything other than (the > hashes of) specific spam messages that were reported.
More specifically, it generates hashes of *pieces* of those spam messages, including URLs. Spam sent through a mailing list would include any standard list footers, like this chunk of text that has appeared at the end of every message to the Razor list for the past several months: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Razor-users mailing list > Razor-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users In theory, that text, or the URLs in it, could end up listed in Razor until enough people receive mistagged messages and revoke them. The question: is this likely to be a problem in practice, or just in theory? -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list Razor-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
