On 8/18/2010 6:14 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
On 8/18/2010 4:46 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
Registering with a white list doesn't reduce spam. It reduces false
positives when you send email.
If you want to reduce spam however you could add this MX record as your
highest numbered MX.
tarbaby. [...]
Ahem.
Marc, your infrequent (and off-topic at that) post about adding your
tarpit MX for third-party domains is one thing. So far, it was a new
thread always, and well, the very same arguing against it started
immediately.
This response, however, is a totally different thing. In my not so
humble opinion, this is advertising -- almost cold-calling -- without
the *necessary* discussion of what this does, what it actually means and
the downsides implied.
Please do not do it this way.
guenther -- with his SA PMC and moderator hat on
I've described it a number of times on the list. I don't see why I need
to continue to do that.
Great news!
They were discussing ways to reduce spam and I
mentioned it. It's free - it works - and there is no down side.
There is a downside as has been explained before by me and many
others.
The actual fact of the matter is that the reason your sticking your
plug for this MX trick of yours into the replies is because you want
to contaminate the mailing list archives.
You are hoping that one of us folks who know better will not be
reading one of these threads and so your plug will slide by
unnoticed.
Then a few years later when some newbie is looking for something
in the mailing list archives they will come across your plug
and think it's a good idea, because there will be no counter-post
from one of the people on the list who knows better.
The amazing part of this is you think all of us are dumb enough
to fall for this trick.
As Karsten said your attempting to hijack a thread for a plug.
The fact that it's a "free" system doesn't mean that it's a
good system. The amazing thing to me is that you have had it
explained why it's bad, repeatedly, and you continue to ignore
the explanations.
Are your eyes deaf?
Ted
Here's the info on it.
http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Project_tarbaby
And it helps build black lists of spam bots that people can use for free.
Now you're going to criticize me for explaining what you just asked for?
