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Message-Id: <200612131711.28292.a1426z@gawab.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:11:28 +0300 From: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Postgrey experiment at VGER Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:25 +0200, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 01:50 +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > > I do already see spammers smart enough to retry addresses from > > > the zombie machine, but that share is now below 10% of all emails. > > > My prediction for next 200 days is that most spammers get the clue, > > > but it gives us perhaps 3 months of less leaked junk. Great! > > IMHO this is only an step in an "arms race". > > What you will do in three months, remove this check because it will > > prove useless since the spammers will also retry ? If yes, why install > > it in the first place ? > > Why ever do anything? You're going to die eventually anyway... Right! The problem here is that it may do more harm than good. May I suggest a smarter way to filter these spammers, by just whitelisting email addresses of valid posters, after sending a confirmation for the first post. Now if these spammers get smart, and start using personal email addresses, I would certainly expect some real action by abused email address owners. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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