> [a fairly complete description of an anti-spam proposal for mailing lists]
I'd add a mechanism to notify the person sending the spam that the
message was rejected and why. This needs to be polite, since sometimes
(hopefully not too often) the message will be from a legit subscriber
and they will get upset if the determination was incorrect. This
mechanism would also carbon-copy to the list maintainer address.
A problem with the FTP sites/dedicated telnettable ports idea is that a
spammer could use the database to make spams that are unstoppable. I
don't know what could be done here except to "register" mailing list
sites/hosts as trusted users of the database, with a fairly good
(minimum: telephone conversation) investigation of the trusted
users... Of course, this is a major maintenance headache. Just how
many "major" mailing lists are there that would want to use this
service?
Just my $0.02
Jeff
jeffg@pyrenees.org
Administrator, PYR-L
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