On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 22:34, Daniel Drake wrote: > > What about setting up some honey pots? > > The list admin could for instance send some kind of email with unique > > from field, and see what addresses respond. > > Interesting idea, but the spam mails you recieve probably come from a > completely different machine than the ones that pick up your email address > from this mailing list. And if the addresses are picked out from archives by > web-spiders, then they wouldnt even have to be subscribed to the list (so > theres no way that the list admin could stop them getting the mails..)
Well, what i meant was to make one fictive address for every user on the mailinglist. Then make a one to one mapping, and send a mail that seems to go to everyone on the list, but actually is targeted specifically at a single address. This way one could flush out spammers from the list, by reverse mapping which addresses receives spam mail. Of course this mailaddress must never reach the mailingarchives. That would undermine their very idea. And if they were, then one would have to have a separate address for the archives. > Is it a single server/address spamming you? The spam that I see typically > comes from appearingly randomly generated addresses, so that wouldnt make > tracking a spammer down any easier... I can't really tell, I was only stunned by the swift response from the spammer community. I received a spam mail only a few hours after posting for the first time with this address, which has been made only for receiving gentoo-list mail. They've sent only two mails until now, and they were from different origins. -- ---------- Sincerely Vennlig Hilsen Tom Fredrik Klaussen Rosendalsvn. 16B N-1166 Oslo Norway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
