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Re: spam list ...was GCC 3.2.2 build error on Solaris 9 x86
- From: Allen Gwinn <allen at gwinn dot net>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: jeff at xpec dot com, gcc at gnu dot org, jbuck at synopsys dot com, pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at, spamlist1 at widearea dot net
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:45:47 -0600
- Subject: Re: spam list ...was GCC 3.2.2 build error on Solaris 9 x86
- References: <20030219125839.DCBD4F2D44@nile.gnat.com>
Yes, this is probably a very good way to do it. An affiliate's site won't accept
email from you unless it knows you. The way it finds out that you're OK is to send
a reply to you asking you to confirm your first piece of email. Since most spammers
are "drop and go" with invalid reply-to's, spam is effectively filtered.
There's no silver bullet--but there are things you can do to reduce it. The best
thing on the net is Spamcop.net. The next best thing is mail-abuse.org's RBL.
Maybe as time progresses, and people's email boxes become unusable, the issue will
be solved through a combination of technical and legislative.
Thanks for the input.
Allen
Robert Dewar wrote:
> We have eliminated 100% of SPAM (well to be fair 3 got through last year) from
> our report at gnat dot com mailing list at ACT by the simple mechanism of requiring
> a specific string in the subject line. If this string is not there, we send back
> a message explaining our policy, so that if there is a human at the other end,
> the message can be resent.