From: "martin f krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>also sprach jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.12.1158 +0200]:
>> Feed us spam, please. Avoid the middle man. It makes our response
>> quicker.
>
> Should I set up an autoreply to all my spam from the address of the
> list, or simply forward all my spam?
For that you'd get banned from the list. But posting new examples of
spam that escape the filters is worthwhile. Back when we were not stuck
with the Apache.org sysadmins I noticed that the SARE rules got updated
far more frequently and quickly in the face of new threats. In those
days the new types of spam that escaped tests were forwarded to the
list and new rules were developed almost instantly.
Now that getting messages to the SARE people violates the 20-20 rule
the updates are seriously lagging. (The 20-20 rule states that if
something is more than 20' or 20 seconds out of the way people will
tend to avoid it. It's an effective way to hide in a corporate
environment, for example.) Posting a message to your web site and
composing a message about it is beyond 20 seconds out of the way
for the poster and more than 20 seconds out of the way for the SARE
people. So updates come less frequently.
{^_^}
