Re: [iPAQ] Massive spamming of the list

'dummy lists'? What for?
Please bear with me, I'm not a native English speaker.
All we need is a dummy address, say, dummy_at_handhelds.org. This address
should be advertised on the hh.org website, in such a way that spambots
stupidly harvest it, as they do with the addresses of 'real email lists'
(the dummy address should remain invisible to normal users, so they
don't send email to this address and get blacklisted by error).
Then comes the spam attack: spammers will probably cretineously send
their crap to both valid and dummy addresses: mail sent to the dummy
address will be stored into a special mailbox, whereas hypermail will
compare mail it receives for valid addresses to mail stored in this
special mailbox. Now, I apologise, I know nothing about hypermail's guts
and I'm not sure this kind of algorithm will be easy to implement.
Especially, a reasonable delay should be added, in case junk messages
are sent to a valid address first, then to the dummy address.

Achille

Marcus Brown wrote:
> OK,
>
> So what you mean, in essence, is that the 'spam-assassin' needs to
> be fed a diet of a combination of 'real email lists' vs 'dummy lists'.
> (to look for similarities)
>
> Marcus
>

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