> -----Original Message-----
> From: mouss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 8:36 PM
> To: Loren Wilton
> Cc: SpamAssassin Users List
> Subject: Re: Enumerating the robots?
>
>
> Loren Wilton wrote:
> > It was mentioned that several people are getting hammered by
> > world-wide robot attacks. I see from the little spam I get
> that there
> > is a new spam sending tool for robots that is running a
> stock spam. I
> > suspect the traffic is a combination of distributing the
> new spam tool
> > and sending out the new spam.
> >
> > With all this traffic from robots, lots of people here must
> be getting
> > quite a lot of information in their logs about connections from
> > robots. I wonder if there would be value in a central
> database that
> > attempts to enumerater the robots?
>
> why central? a distributed db is more effective. yes, we'd
> need a way to
> give trust points to different people, but I find it safer
> than trusting
> a few secret self-designed group, be that a "good" group. and
> it can be
> more dynamic (and it can implement a "natural behaviour" of people).
Based on URIBL, SURBL, and SARE work I'm going to disagree with you. There are definite advantages to having a private group WITH public input to be reviewed. Its the best of both worlds. Its not closed and its not open. Its "clopen" source ;)
Thanks,
Chris Santerre
SysAdmin and Spamfighter
www.rulesemporium.com
www.uribl.com
