[Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

[Brad Knowles]

Gadi,

I think we could certainly do this, but we would need to carefully  
vette the subscriptions to try to keep the more advanced spammers from  
sneaking in.

Feel free to discuss this with me offline, if you like.

-- 
Brad Knowles

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org> wrote:

> I often see addresses popping up and subscribing to all visible  
> lists on my servers.
>
> Sometimes they're a curious individual, and most times they are  
> spammers harversting addresses (as these are open only to admin).
>
> I wonder what the coding "price" would be, if it can even work with  
> mailman, to create a central trusted DB which watched subscription  
> trends?
>
> 1. It could be used for security.
> 2. It could fight spammers on the mailman front.
> 3. If we deal with the security and privacy implications of the  
> first two, or want a constructive cause--collect cool trends and  
> provide with a mailing lists index by tag words and activity. Think  
> technorati..
>
> This of course, is just a neat idea. Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Gadi.
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