On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Andrew Thomas wrote:
Considering that it appears that spammers are now resorting to DoS'ing sites that host spam lists, wouldn't now be a good time to investigate the possibilities of a distributed, or at least, load balanced blacklist provider?
That's an interesting reaction to the problem. Here's a better idea: a) admit that your stupid, self-appointed-netcop blacklists and self-righteous spam projects are inherently flawed, and are generally populated by spam reports made by clueless idiots that don't realize they are reporting forged and/or incorrect addresses. The net effect is that a lot of innocent bystanders/IP-blocks/ISPs waste a lot of time dealing with your self-righteous crusader projects. b) realize that the distributed method you suggest already exists - it is called procmail(*). Please spend your sophomore year working on something besides "self-appointed-spam-netcop-site-of-the-week". (*) or you could setup a dummy email account on all web-published documents, and delete any email that arrives in both mailboxes, or you could implement a challenge/response mechanism for all new senders. All three mechanisms mentioned are distributed, independent, and don't require some asshole swooping in to save us with his miraculous spews database. ----- John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com