Re: [OT] Confirmation Spam Blocking was: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts

[Willy Tarreau <willy _at_ xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:20:26PM -0500, Brian Beattie wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:41, David Ford wrote:
> > No, actually you can a) reply to my -plain text- email and yes...this is 
> > plain text that has been trimmed, b) wait because I'm involved in this 
> > discussion, I go to my queue and pre-auth people involved.
> > 
> > So it's fine for you to have filters of your choosing, but someone 
> > else's filter's of their choosing are obnoxious...very social.
> > 
> > viro _at_ parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> > 
> 
> Well it's all very fun, but I expect the spammers to figure out
> challange and response soon enough.

very easy : they will send the mail with a reply-to set to an open ML, then
collect challenges from this ML and send their shit back to you. Imagine a
reply-to set to lkml ? all subscribed people allowed to send their challenges
to the list, and the spammer reading them from marc.theaimsgroup.com :-/

Cheers,
Willy

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