On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:43:37PM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > Making valid and useful actions impossible is not the way to fight > > spam. To fight spam, our spam-masters work quite hard to block open > > relays, etc. > > Alright, I really don't care as long as I don't get it in my mailbox. ;-)
Delete it. It's not that hard. The spammers win if you waste time talking about them. If you just delete the mails immediately, it's easy. > > > One possible technique we could employ is to require that the list > > address appear visibly in the headers (to: or cc:). This would > > prevent Bcc'ing the lists which is a shame (and care would need to be > > taken with -private, which is also security), but it might be worth > > it. > > This is hardly a real solution. Spammers still could post stuff to the > list. > But they never do. [Most] Auto-spam software can't be bothered to fake the headers for all 100,000 recipients, so they send the same body 100,000 times. > > Do you use Orbs? Ask the listmasters. I dunno. -- Jules Bean | Any sufficiently advanced [EMAIL PROTECTED],jellybean.co.uk} | technology is indistinguishable [EMAIL PROTECTED] | from a perl script
