Spam elimination solution based on References header

2000-10-28 Thread Brett Randall
OK, after about 3 hours of mucking about when I should have been studying, I've come up with a way of keeping your e-mail address to yourself on usenet, mailing lists, etc. This means that people that reply to your e-mail will be able to get you, because their MUA will quote your Message ID

Re: Spam elimination solution based on References header

2000-10-28 Thread Brett Randall
OK, It would appear as if I've just found the first (and lets hope last) error in my spam elimination technique/code. In ~usenet/.qmail-default, the references regex will only work if the message ID is on the same line as the References: string. I've modified the regex (and code) to allow the

Re: Spam elimination solution based on References header

2000-10-28 Thread Felix von Leitner
OK, It would appear as if I've just found the first (and lets hope last) error in my spam elimination technique/code. In ~usenet/.qmail-default, the references regex will only work if the message ID is on the same line as the References: string. I've modified the regex (and code) to allow

Re: Spam elimination solution based on References header

2000-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spam traps like this rely on you keeping it to yourself. If enough people start using this, spammers will adjust like they now post from domains that exist and put "Re:" in the subject. This spam trap, unlike most of them, require that spammers

Re: Spam elimination solution based on References header

2000-10-28 Thread Brett Randall
"Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This spam trap, unlike most of them, require that spammers keep an additional piece of information around in addition to the e-mail address, information that they cannot construct mechanically (provided that you construct the regex carefully

Re: Spam elimination solution based on References header

2000-10-28 Thread Brett Randall
"Brett" == Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snipped I didn't want to, but I had to... I've updated the spam eliminator perl code AGAIN to handle crap MUAs that only support In-Reply-To and don't use the References line. Its up to you whether you use the In-Reply-To or not. I might dump