On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:27:36 +0100, thus spake Gordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: : Yes. The problem is that the spammers may not know about those open : relay servers. The last thing we want to do is give them a list of : more open reays to spam us through. OTOH, if the list was public and : the open relays got abused ridiculously, maybe the admins of those : servers would finally do something about them... Somehow I doubt it...
.... Or if the list is public, and everyone's using the list .... Why hasn't this been pointed out before? Am I just missing something terribly obvious? If everyone uses the list, who cares if the spammers start abusing hosts /on/ the list? Yes yes, I know -- then the whole world is subject to whomever is running the list(s). So we'd need an impartial third party to handle updates, which means some implicit trust -- especially by those who don't really know why they're using this blacklist in the first place -- which means somewhere down the line, the list will either be: a) hacked b) purposefully abused c) mistakenly abused causing some sort of Disruption of Service (DioS?). Personally, I think Freenet would make a *great* distribution method for blacklists. However, I'm not sure that the same style of blacklists are the way to go. And since defeating spam is definitely not in the list charter here, I'm going to stop my chattering now. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
