Re: [iPAQ] Massive spamming of the list

Oops, sorry. I've just realised that hypermail has nothing to do with
mail processing & redirection. Please read "Mailman" instead of "hypermail"

Achille FOUILLEUL wrote:
> 'dummy lists'? What for?
> Please bear with me, I'm not a native English speaker.
> All we need is a dummy address, say, dummy@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
>

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