At 05:37 PM -0500 08/27/00, Kate the Short wrote:
> >For that matter, it doesn't even need to be secret at that point --
> >just filtered for valid maintainers in the From. Spammers aren't
>going
> >to forge an faq maintainer's address just to reach a single address.
>
>No, but I don't know whether spammers harvesting email addresses on
>the web
>would get the post-approval changes address if the address was listed
>in the
>archived copy of the guidelines. Aren't those also archived on the web
>somewhere? I know I couldn't find my copy at one time, and needed to
>go
>searching for them...
They absolutely *will* get it one way or another -- we have to assume
that. Security by obscurity does not work.
The point is that any messages with a From: address not already on the
approved list (either an approved FAQ or correspondence in process)
will be automatically dropped into the circular file. Don't even try to
bounce them. The spam will come, but the filter will discard it.
You can't discard unknown senders at the regular submission address,
because that's where new submitters send email -- either explicitly or
by attempting to post.
Hmm. Actually, a filter on known addresses could be applied to the
existing submission address. Recognize the address, move the message
into a "known sender" queue. Leave the rest for manual spam sorting. No
separate address or tags needed. This sounds better, albeit perhaps
more work to set up. Anyone see any problems with this?
Edward Reid
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