On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Colm MacCárthaigh wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:06:06PM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > > On 20 Feb 2002, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > >
> > > > The biggest problem with razor at present is the lack of vetting of
> > > > input, and some form of input validation is essential if razor is to be
> > > > more than a curiosity - for example at present it appears all BUGTRAQ
> > > > postings are being entered into the razor database and for while last
> > > > week this happened to the razor list itself.
> > >
> > > Are they still not doing that? Wow, I'm surprised. A system like that
> > > really needs good vetting.
> >
> > would they not consider something like moderated nntp ? It's fine system
> > for vetting distruting arbitary data across large collections of hosts.
>
> Any sort of mailing list moderation system would work. Setup something
> like ezmlm with moderation, then make new "spams" go as emails to the
> list, and let moderated messages become new entries in the database. None
> of this is rocket science of course ;-)

Because those are both too slow. Part of the point is to get stuff into
the database -fast- so that an in-process spam run can get thwarted.

They're looking for a system where you trust -submitters- (eh, roughly.)

-- 
Charlie Watts
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