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Re: how blacklisting will work in the future

2004-01-12 11:20:13
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:35:53AM -0600, wayne wrote:
| In <20040112153739(_dot_)GV18595(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> Meng Weng 
Wong <mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
| 
| > - an hour later, the spammer tries to connect again.  you check back with 
the RHSBL.
| > - the RHSBL says:
| >   - The following statistics count SPF-validated transactions only.
| >   - 32434offerz.com has been known to me for X hours.
| >   - 32434offerz.com has reportedly sent a total of N messages.
| >   - 32434offerz.com has been reported by M spamtraps.
| >   - 32434offerz.com has been reported by H humans as a spammer.
| 
| I suspect that such details will not be made available by any major
| blacklist, especially not so easily available.
| 
| SpamCop recently removed such details from their *web pages* due to
| spammers using it to figure out which email addresses are spam traps
| and to stop spamming when they are close to being listed.
| 

By that same logic, if we do publish those details, spammers could also
use it to figure out which email addresses go to humans who object to
getting spam, and to stop spamming them.

If we narrow the delta, we tilt the game in our favour.

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