[720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Motion for a new POST NSF AUP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rboivie@VNET.IBM.COM)
Mon Oct 16 17:26:46 1995
From: rboivie@VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 95 16:56:21 EDT
To: wbn@merit.edu
cc: com-priv@lists.psi.com, nanog@merit.edu
In discussing spamming problems
"William B. Norton" <wbn@merit.edu> wrote:
> I personally think slightly smarter exploders might go a long way. For
> example:
> ...
> 2) an exploder that "suspends" messages with more than, say 6 lists
> and newsgroups, and notifies the sender. If the sender is not a real
> address, it automatically is purged.
But wouldn't a spammer just defeat this measure by using a shell script, say.
Instead of sending one message to n lists, a script could easily send n
messages each addressed to a single list.
Rick Boivie
rboivie@vnet.ibm.com
