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[ILUG] Spam Trap?

[ILUG] Spam Trap?

Gary Coady gary at netsoc.tcd.ie
Tue Jan 15 17:47:39 GMT 2002


On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:06:02AM -0600, Scott Wunsch wrote:
> Not only did somebody already think of this, they're actually doing it
> on a distributed basis ;-).

The danger with this, though, is that people could start submitting
legitimate email (such as mail from this mailing list) :-/
So it's not a panacea on its own - much better in combination with the
aforementioned spamassassin if you make exceptions for mailing lists you
subscribe to.

[I believe some debian mailing list mails have been submitted in the past
to the database]

Gary.

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You are your own light, through the darkness.




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