[108288] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: Idea to eliminate most spam on mailing lists [CP] (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vogt)
Thu Feb 11 07:35:36 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:20:00 +0100
From: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
To: Michael Hohensee <michael@sparta.mainstream.net>
CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
Michael Hohensee wrote:
> > no passphrases. what you need is not the LISTSERVER's key, but a key for
> > yourself. and because your key will get banned pretty quickly once you
> > post spam with it, you'll have to generate a new key every spam. I agree
> > that it's easy to have a cd full of keys ready, though.
>
> Yah, and even worse, every listserv in existance would have to maintain
> a record of these useless keys, lest the spammers re-use them. It's not
> a good idea to force everyone to archive copies of useless data, and
> would probably take up more space on disk than the spam to begin with.
you're right.
> It might be workable if there were a central (or set of central)
> repository for spammers' keys, but that'd require some kind of human
> verification that each key was associated with spam, to guard against
> malicious submissions. It's expensive to put humans into the loop...
agreed. so no outside submissions is for now probably the best solution
against spam on mailing lists.
