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From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@cateee.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Postgrey experiment at VGER
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:56:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061215105649.GE3391@vanheusden.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458025A5.2070001@cateee.net>

>May I suggest a smarter way to filter these spammers, by just whitelisting 
>email addresses of valid posters, after sending a confirmation for the 
>first post.  Now if these spammers get smart, and start using personal 
>email addresses, I would certainly expect some real action by abused email 
>address owners.

Spammers will fake the from-address, possibly using the address of a
spam-trap for the from-field. Your challenge will then be sent to the
spam-trap, causing vger to be blacklisted.


Folkert van Heusden

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-15 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-13 14:11 Al Boldi
2006-12-13 15:37 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-13 16:09 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-12-13 17:16   ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-14  4:41   ` David Rees
2006-12-15 10:56   ` Folkert van Heusden [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-12 23:50 Matti Aarnio
2006-12-13  9:25 ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2006-12-13 12:52   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-14  1:25   ` Thomas Davis
2006-12-14  5:21 ` Rick

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