[ways to prevent using mailing list addresses to email spam]
> 1) is there a mailing list for discussing this
> (or where to discuss this)
Here actually, since this is the affected list.
> 2) a suggestion :
>
> we could require use of pgp and send only encrypted mail
> to subscribers. We would produce a message
> readable by everyone on the list (possible with pgp...
> dunno how much time it would take to encrypt a 4kB
> mail for ... 1000 recipients (realistic?))
>
> we could also require all incoming mails to be signed,
> and use some kind of trusted key server... ran by linux's
> fans
>
> to avoid junkmailers digging into archives, looking for
> email addresses, we have to keep addresses secret
>
> oooops... I just thought about one thing : there may be
> remailers, decrypting the mailing list and forwarding
> it unencrypted...
If the list server would just delete email addresses then most
of the problems would stop within a few months I think.
Email addresses can be replaced be u_s_e_r_@_i_s_p_._c_o_m if
they are being collected mechanically from the news feed.
If there is a chance someone might code something to fix
addresses like that, then we can substitute 25sep96.42@some.place.
That some place may not exist (spammer bounces _lots_ of mail
because all the addresses are unique).
Better yet, some.place can forward mail to the real user for 48 hours
after a post, send a polite note for the next 7 days, and send the
source tree after that. The remailer can log hosts that seem to send
a large amount of mail to the fake addresses.