SPAM (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Want to take in $560,00 or more after supper...?)

James Moore wrote: > Seems we are getting more and more spam.. I have sent an email to either > abuse@ address' for yahoo and hotmail and asked for the lists to be removed > from this one. Anyideas on how to combat it can we get a filter set up for > the lists? Well, there's a variety of options, all of which are good ideas (if not done already) for fighting spam: 1. Only allow posts from subscriber addresses only. 2. Using RBL/PSS/DUL and/or ORBS (a political issue, they tend to piss people off, as they may shut *entire netblocks* down for excessive spam, much to the chagrin of non-spammers using the same ISPs) at the php-net mail server(s). 3. Fight it personally with spamcop.net. This won't stave off future attacks, but it will help shut out some repeat offenders. I've been doing all three on the lists I admin for. The RBL and ORBS can get rid of quite a bit, but if done *wrong*, may shut out many newbie developers (who aren't using static IP's for their dev servers, so they may look like spammers using throw-away accounts). See: http://maps.vix.com/ http://www.orbs.org/ General Links: http://www.spamfree.org/resources/filtering_isps.html -Bop > > -----Original Message----- > > From: virtualcasino.com [mailto:virtualcasino.com] > > Sent: 04 January 2001 23:11 > > To: php-dev@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Want to take in $560,00 or more after supper...? > > > -- Personal: ron@opus1.com, 520-326-6109, http://www.opus1.com/ron/ Work: rchmara@pnsinc.com, 520-546-8993, http://www.pnsinc.com/ The opinions expressed in this email are not neccesarrily those of myself, my employers, or any of the other little voices in my head.