Gadi,
I think we could certainly do this, but we would need to carefully
vette the subscriptions to try to keep the more advanced spammers from
sneaking in.
Feel free to discuss this with me offline, if you like.
--
Brad Knowles
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On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Gadi Evro
The problem I see with this is much like the DNSBLs and Block lists
(spamhaus?).
As Jason put it, one person's spam could very much be another person's
ham, so mail starts getting rejected by those who outright trust such a
database and it is hell trying to get removed from those said lists.
First, I think it would have better luck on the developers mailing
list :)
But as for the idea, I think it could work, but someone would have to
provide the hosting for the database that would hold all the info. And
we would have to figure out who would be a "trusted" source to report
the
I often see addresses popping up and subscribing to all visible lists on
my servers.
Sometimes they're a curious individual, and most times they are spammers
harversting addresses (as these are open only to admin).
I wonder what the coding "price" would be, if it can even work with
mailman,