Re: Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Toby Butzon wrote: > Although I agree, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Somehow, the > head PHP folks don't seem to be too interested in combatting spam; I > brought up the discussion a few weeks ago and was met with strong > resistance. You'd be surprised to learn how many anti-spam measures we already have in place. Those measures effectively dropped 99.9% of spam in the past; but spammers have adopted new methods, so we need to change as well. I noticed that the still existing, but inactive php3 list is always spammed in a row with active lists. Assuming that no legitimate email is delivered to that list, we can treat all emails as spam and hence automatically blacklist further spam based on certain criteria. We can create a separate list where a notification about that event is sent to, so that the actions are trackable. Existing lists would introduce a certain delay between receiving an email and forwarding it to list members. The delay would increase the chance that the spam has already been delivered to the php3 blacklist, when we perform the pre-forwarding check for existing lists. So, if we pursue this plan, we should continue advertising the php3 list in prominent places where email address harvesters will find it (list archives might do a good job at that already). - Sascha