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

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 03:33:25 -0400 
Barry A Warsaw <barry@zope.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> writes:

JCL> Nothing.  BUT, if the addresses are date limited the number of
JCL> addresses in the valid pool is going to tend to be small (ie number
JCL> of posters within the last window).  This perforce forces SPAM
JCL> harvesters to constant updating of their lists and a resultant huge
JCL> rate of bad addresses.

> Plus, if you do server alias replacement, you have another technique
> at your disposal -- you can quarantine messages for some amount of
> time and watch for multiple copies to your aliases.  List admins would
> be able to move the lever between more immediate delivery and longer
> quarantines as an anti-spam device.

Oooooooooo!  I like it.  The delay wouldn't even have to be large as the
typical volumes would be small (thus making the overhead manageable).  A
couple hours would be just fine for >80% of the cases.

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