On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Toby Butzon wrote:
> Although I agree, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Somehow, the
> head PHP folks don't seem to be too interested in combatting spam; I
> brought up the discussion a few weeks ago and was met with strong
> resistance.
You'd be surprised to learn how many anti-spam measures we
already have in place. Those measures effectively dropped
99.9% of spam in the past; but spammers have adopted new
methods, so we need to change as well.
I noticed that the still existing, but inactive php3 list is
always spammed in a row with active lists. Assuming that no
legitimate email is delivered to that list, we can treat all
emails as spam and hence automatically blacklist further spam
based on certain criteria. We can create a separate list
where a notification about that event is sent to, so that the
actions are trackable.
Existing lists would introduce a certain delay between
receiving an email and forwarding it to list members. The
delay would increase the chance that the spam has already
been delivered to the php3 blacklist, when we perform the
pre-forwarding check for existing lists.
So, if we pursue this plan, we should continue advertising
the php3 list in prominent places where email address
harvesters will find it (list archives might do a good job at
that already).
- Sascha
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