Re: [Asrg] Please critique my anti-spam system

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

"Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-asrg at hjp.at> wrote:

> I think he means it the other way around: Every time you post
> something to a mailinglist, you get a lot of challenges because your
> address isn't in the whitelist.

For a "public" mailinglist (such as this) I'd consider that the same
as challenges due to forgery: spam.

>> If you miss out on postings to the list because I won't
>> jump through your hoops, that's your problem.
>> Currently, such lists (e.g. bugtraq) are a problem for posters.
>
> But bugtraq does rewrite the envelope sender (it uses ezmlm's VERP
> scheme). The problem with bugtraq is that a lot of people have software
> installed which ignores the envelope sender and replies to the address
> in the From: header instead.

Good point.  OK, substitute some other list instead.  (I just thought
of bugtraq due to the huge amount of garbage I get whenever I post
there.)

Seth

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