On Wednesday 27 September 2006 16:15, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On 9/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 08:21, John Kelly wrote: > > > For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed > > > murphy.debian.org. That's it. I'm done with spamcop! > > > > If murphy is sending spamtraps, it deserves to be listed. period. > > Um, nonsense.
Not really! > > Best practice for any mailing list is to require email confirmation, > based on a message sent to the subscribed address (whether the initial > subscribe request came via email or over the web). Thus, I can make > any mailing list server send email to a spamtrap address trivially -- > I just fake a subscribe message "from" the spamtrap address, or enter > the spamtrap address into the subscription form on the web. The catch here is that you have no idea of what the spamtrap address is. I dont think it is easy for humans to guess what the spamtrap addresses look like. raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
