>
>
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 07:23 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > URI based black lists have been extremely effected in
> identifying spam.
> > I propose another kind of black list. A list of email
> addresses embedded
> > in the message body as replies to nigerian type spam and other spam
> > where you are instructed to reply to the email address in
> the message body.
SNIP
>
> Picking up an old thread.
>
> Maybe we would not want to do a lookup at for example.
> dig txt spammer=domain.tld.blacklist.tld
> To check if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spammers email address.
>
> But only at domain.tld.blacklist.tld and punnish the webmailprovider
> (most of the time the free providers) with a low score.
> It doesn't make a message go over the top but if e.g. in every message
> with a yahoo/hotmail/... address in it which is scanned by SA
> a line is
> included with
> EMAILBLACKLISTYAHOO=0.5 added maybe then someday yahoo will
> do someting
> about spammers.
>
> Maybe then there could be even a (dangerous and misused but free
> advertising for the provider) rule which will be a negative scoring
> rule.
> I would "love" to see in every spam message spammers mis-using my good
> name to lower the amount of point. (possible problems like
> the good-old
> bayes poisoning)
>
>
> In this example yahoo is used but it could have been any provider.
>
> --
> With kind regards,
>
> Maurice Lucas
> TAOS-IT
While I would also like to do something like this, it is essentialy like walking up to Bill Gates and saying "My family only uses Wordperfect, because you charge too much for office." Then Bill Gates replies "Sorry to here that." Then he drives away in his Mclaren laughing his butt off on the way to his mansion where beautiful strippers hired by his bank will massage his feet and bring him the finest wines known to man.
Yahoo, hotmail, gmail (I like these guys the most.), and other freemail providers simply do not care if a small % of people add some little bad score to the email. Hell they don't care if you 5xx them at the gate. They see it as your loss.
--Chris
