Re: Anti-SPAM Suggestion...

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:48:23 +0300


On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:01:57PM +0200, Julian Bradfield wrote:
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> I imagine this thread alone has already cost you all more time and
> effort than the spam, apart from the one poor soul who's actually
> dealing with it.

Indeed, that one reports that very few genuine postings
to linux-kernel occurred since the incidence begun.

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> I suspect that these attacks are not going to become much more
> frequent. When they do happen, it's obviously worth talking to the
> managers of the lists being subscribed to, and suggesting that they
> adopt the increasingly common "subscribe and then confirm with unique
> cookie" approach.

Yes, something like that will likely happen.
Beginning with update from Majordomo 1.x to 2.0 ...

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/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
One of people whose outbound address differs (radically)
from list subscription address...

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