Hi all the ignorers, ;)
Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>
>> Whenever I see one of those I simply blackhole the server sending them.
>
> Ah, the ever popular vigilante spam method. What if the message is
> coming from, say, gmail.com, and it's getting routed so that you're not
> sure which account is originating it? Do you blackhole everybody on
> *that* server just because there's one idiot?
>
> This is the same problem on a smaller scale. It's not clear which
> account is reponsible, and I believe I saw that there are other people
> using the same ISP who also subscribe to the list. That's why Marc is
> testing who the guilty party is rather than unsubscribing everyone there.
yes, blackholing is bad as well as accepting everything and then sending
out errors. Unfortunaly, email resembles the ideas of the decade when it
was invented (freedom of speach over regulating) so security is only
available as ad on. I wish however everybody would go by cryptography,
meaning in our case the sender signs and the list checks (1) and also
the list signs (2) when sending out, which makes it easy to check for
the receiver if to accept the mail or decline in band...
Cheers
Tino
PS: happy 1st of may :-)
