Re: [iPAQ] Massive spamming of the list

Achille FOUILLEUL wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Sorry, I feel I've not been quite clear.
> The trick is that the honeypot address is just supposed to receive spam.
> With an appropriate add-on, the mailing system could compare the
> messages sent to the mailing-list addresses with the messages sent to
> the honeypot. If they look too similar, the message is regarded as junk
> and not forwarded.
> Well, there's a problem: if a junk message is sent to a mailing list
> address first, then to the honeypot, this doesn't work. Or we may need
> to add some delay between the moment a message is received and the
> moment it is re-sent.

The Honey Pot idea sounds good. Of course, spammers can combat that by
randomizing the emails they send to users (that defeats their purpose of
direct marketing though).

>>> Tom wrote:
>>>
>>>> In the past day, the spamming of the list has definitely gotten out
>> of
>>>> control. Maybe it's time to restrict the list so that only subscribers
>>>> can post? (I realize that a determined spammer could easily forge the
>>>> "from" email address, but most don't care that much)

As long as people who signed up with addresses like
user+ipaq_mail@domain can still write to the list (they would send as
user@domain).
Received on Wed Jan 14 17:11:08 2004