Re: filtering of mailing lists and NATs

[grenville armitage]

Aidan Williams wrote:
        [..]
> To extend the analogy again in the opposite direction: now that
> software is available to tunnel random traffic over HTTP, we can
> expect firewall filtering to get harder, and become less effective.
> Why would this not happen for email lists too?

Most spammers strike me as opportunistic and not overly interested
in special-case-handling a couple of subscribe-to-send lists,
given the hundreds and thousands of target addresses they
purchased on a CDROM. Yes, they could get around pre-subscribe
schemes. Yet it seems likely most wouldn't bother, and would
instead just end up ignoring us. Which would be nice.

cheers,
gja