In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hrvoje Niksic said: > Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Right now, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is providing free relaying for spammers > > to all its subscribers. > > So does any mailing list with open subscription.
Any spammer *could* subscribe to an open-subscription list, but as a practical matter they do not. Spam-generating software generally just takes two files: a list of addresses and the message to be sent. It then just blindly blasts out the message. Error responses are ignored, even if the headers are not forged to prevent responses from getting back at all. Spammers are not interested in bounce messages of any type, including "You are not subscribed" messages. It simply is not worth their time to figure out why some of their 500,000+ emails did not go through. > > Mmm... What would you think of having the list software > > automatically add a special header (say X-Non-Subscriber) to every > > mail sent by a non-subscriber ? > > I see where you're getting at, and I would have absolutely no > objections to that. > This would give us something on which we could filter. It also would prevent legitimate non-subscribers' messages being seen by some people. Possibly a good compromise. -- Jim McMaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
