[SATLUG] spam-fighting techniques

[Travis H.]

Going over old email.

> >> around.  Better to silently drop it into /dev/null than add to the
> >> problem...

Yep, it's called collateral spam.

Me, I think it should be stored in the spam folder or appended to an
archive, just in case.

I've been toying with the idea of creating a highly configurable but
already very good mail distro or appliance.  I deal with tons of spam
at Rackspace, and most of the time it is someone abusing a
poorly-coded PHP form (header injection) or a user-level compromise
(again, usually apache uid).  I think it needs to be configurable, or
perhaps have a "randomized configuration", to keep spammers from
compensating for a really successful product (pipe dream, perhaps, but
look at what they're doing with bayesian filters).
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