[ale] [OT] Rediculus Spam via ALE

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:43:04AM -0400, Chris Farris wrote:
> That is infact the problem. Everytime I put an email address on a
> website in about 2 weeks that address starts getting a flood of spam....
> Not much you can do about it once its out there - even if I went back
> and fixed the archives (all 6 years of them) they would still be cached 
> out there, and once harvested they are traded around in the spammer
> community.

> I've given up and I'm writing a Challenge/Response Whitelist/blacklist
> system to filter email on my site. I'll let people know how that turns
> out.

	http://tmda.net

	Tagged Message Delivery Agent.

	Not bad...  Doesn't play real nice with mailing lists (but no
challenge response system does) but you use SpamAssassin to clean out
the cruft in the mailing lists and use TMDA for the personal stuff.

	Chris, I think you are already "whitelisted" in my system from
earlier messages I used to initialize the system, so you can't even
test it or notice a delay...  Others...  Might...

> chris

	Mike

> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 22:26, matty91 at bellsouth.net wrote:
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> > I see email addresses are added to the messages in the archives. That
> > *might* be one of the problems.
> > 
> > - - Ryan
> > 
> > Ryan Matteson - UNIX Administrator | GPG ID: 92D5DFFF
> > Public Key: http://www.daemons.net/~matty/public_key.txt
> > Fingerprint = 4BEC 6145 30A6 BCE6 5602 FF11 4954 165D 92D5 DFFF
> > 
> > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Doug McNash wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > I have been wondering the same. I have received 4 such
> > > e-mails, 3 Nigerian letters and one real creative Iraqi
> > > Oil Minister letter.  I also use this email as a private
> > > address.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Doug McNash
> > > dmcnash at smyrnacable.net
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