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

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Ron Chmara wrote: > 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). ORBS looks like a bad idea to me, my ISP is blocked in it. Derick Rethans --------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - derick@php.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- JDI Media Solutions - www.jdimedia.nl - d.rethans@jdimedia.nl H.v. Tussenbroekstraat 1 - 6952 BL Dieren - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it." ---------------------------------------------------------------------