On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Marc Perkel wrote:
As you know SA reports spam to various service like Pyzor, Razor, Spamcop,
etc. Why not have a module that sends messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. If we had such a module then these
free email services could automatically shut down spammers after seeing a
fairly high rate of complaints coming in. It could be totally automated and
spammers could be trashed just as they get started.
Who likes this idea?
I hate it, for one. As great as SpamAssassin is, I don't trust it to
be perfect -- and that would require it to be perfect. There are a
few things I will never automate, and submitting mail to abuse@ is one
of them.
As I mentioned last week on this list, too, automating reception of
abuse@ messages is worse than stupid. Spammers are very good at
sending a lot of mail, and they could easily spam abuse@ and create
DoS conditions at will.
If you automatically spam [EMAIL PROTECTED], all that will obtain is
that the rest of us will get worse service from Yahoo!'s abuse desk
because they'll be bogged down by your requests. If they're smart,
they might blacklist you from reporting abuse. If every SA user on
the planet started spamming [EMAIL PROTECTED], they'd probably just set
up an auto-blacklister for SA-submitted mail, and they'd be justified
in doing so, IMHO.
Incidentally, I was under the impression that Pyzor and Razor didn't
allow automated submissions -- that's what gave them such low rates of
FPs.
Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University
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Never send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
