[Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:21:57 -0700


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:15:24 -0700 
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/02 10:59 PM, "J C Lawrence" <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:

>> How about the CGI business as a solution?  You can do that without
>> exposing the address and while doing due diligence on constraining
>> abuse.

> Once you build the infrastructure to support cloaked-but-forwarding
> addresses, it's definitely possible. But not 1st generation stuff, I
> don't think.

True.  Its a pretty clean v2 tho, and with a short runway between v1 and
v2.

>> ObNote: Apple runs a large enough mail ship that its an attractive
>> target in and of itself should you do an automated system like this.

> Shh. If you don't tell anyone... (oh, wait, security through obscurity
> is a bad idea...)

There are many problems which become clearly non-linear purely due to
the Big Number effect.  SPAM is one of those problems on all three ends
of the equation.

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