At 11:03 AM 9/1/03 +0200, Andrew Thomas wrote:

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b) realize that the distributed method you suggest already exists - it is called procmail(*). Procmail serves no purpose by itself. It requires no small amount of effort on the part of the administrator to utilise for any type of systems implmentation, and thus administrators with limited time (common in smaller companies) will rather rely on (flawed) projects than self-initiated implementations.

The "overworked small netadmin" will simply use someone else's scripts. Not hard.

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(*) or you could setup a dummy email account on all

The above is useful information. Specifically, the recognition of duplicate mail receipts is a concept that is new to me, though

You're behind then. Putting "harvest this and get blocked" email bait is common practice, eg on websites with addresses. I don't suppose you've ever heard of fake streets in maps (cartographic watermarks) to detect copying?