On 5/7/07 at 1:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I still come back to, how does this solve the subscription > confirmation process? That will only work by sending a mail to the > person that sent the request initially.
Well, he's not seeing *that* problem yet. Plus somehow I think SpeakEasy might be a little more gracious about confirmation requests that didn't also echo back spammage. But he has to deal with this problem *now.* If someone's shooting at you, you don't stand there like a target until you figure out how to invent impenetrable armor. You take cover *now*, then you disarm *this* guy, then you attempt to solve the larger problem. It's triage. His server got targeted somehow because a spammer figured out how to abuse the unsubscribe command. If error messages stop including the original text (optionally, perhaps) then the spammers will give up on it eventually, going for open relays or other ways that still deliver their messages. This is where we wistfully wish (say that three times fast) that all of this wasn't designed 30 years ago, because if we did it today, we'd have an easier way to get the IP address of the original sender than hoping it was in optional, hard-to-parse headers. But we got what we got. --Matt -- Matt Deatherage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GCSF, Incorporated <http://www.macjournals.com> "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." -- Henry Ford -- This message is from the Letterrip-Talk Mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/letterrip-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/
