[Wylug-discuss] Spammers getting smarter?

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 21:11, James Holden (Wylug) wrote:
> It seems that the spammers are getting smarter by the minute.

I'd probably dispute the term "smarter" here - more cunning maybe, and
they are pretty well organised.

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> Who's using auto-whitelisting, or some other system to beat the spam?
> Does it work, or is it too much hassle?

I have the SA whitelisting enabled, which seems to work reasonably well.

If you move to a TDMA type system make sure you appropriately exclude
your subscribed mailing lists from filtering.  With the current spam hit
on the submission interfaces I am certainly not inclined to spend time
jumping through spam filtering enabling hoops to get list mail to
people, so TDMA style confirmation requests are treated just like bounce
messages - ie more than a couple and you get unsubscribed.

	Nigel.

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