Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
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 Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Gadi Evro

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Krystal Zipfel
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.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Jason Pruim
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

[Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Gadi Evron
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,