At 9:40 AM -0800 11/10/06, Dragon wrote: > True, and there will always be an arms race between spammers and > those of us who run servers to try to protect ourselves from unwanted junk.
Yup. > But certain approaches are still quite effective and we should still > be utilizing them when appropriate. Hopefully, the good guys will be > able to keep ahead of the technology curve to put the screw to the bad guys. Speaking as one of the "good guys", I can tell you that we are losing the war. I've written a series of articles to be published on the LOPSA.ORG website on the current state-of-the-art with regards to fighting spam, and I can tell you that it's not pretty. The bad guys keep getting more and more resources that they can casually throw at any problem, and we keep getting pushed further and further into the corner on the defenses that exist and which can be employed. We're losing, and we're losing badly. And the situation is only going to get a lot worse. Right now, most of the possible solutions I've seen have been as bad or worse than the disease. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trend Micro has announced that they will cancel the stop.mail-abuse.org mail forwarding service as of 15 November 2006. If you have an old e-mail account for me at this domain, please make sure you correct that with the current address. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
