[ale]OT It begins...

[ChangingLINKS.com]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 14:42, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:54, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> 
> > Jim, start talking server-side solutions here. . . . anyone?
> 
> There are no known single server-side solutions, simply because the spam
> isn't coming from a server under ALE's control.  The answer lies
> somewhere in the chain of servers/devices that lead ultimately to the
> client's system.  The email addresses may be coming from one or more
> archives (or a harvesting agent subscribed to ale) but the spam is going
> to everyone's individual/ISP/company mailserver not back through
> ale.org.  Each of those servers needs a spam solution.  I use Yahoo! to
> filter (purify?) my inbound email.  Earthlink offers a very good
> solution too, I especially like their spamBlocker(r).  I've heard that
> spamassassin is good as well.  There are several other solutions (winXX,
> Linux, MacOS, etc) for those that run their own email systems.  I
> personally think that larger entities (Yahoo!, ELink, ATT, AOL, etc)
> have a better chance of being effective than a smaller system which sees
> less overall email traffic and spam.
> 
> -Jim P.


Ok. I think I understand what you are saying. With my site, I don't expose 
member's email addresses. They are kept in a  database and replaced with a 
unique number. Bots can browse my site to get to the member web pages 
(however, I can disable that to a great extent) and get the email address 
directly from the member site (which I have no control of).

What I am proposing is that we use a similar system so that our email 
addresses aren't picked up as easily as this:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pull-web-t&p=ale+changinglinks+linux

Enough pontificating.

Will anyone volunteer to create a server-side solution, or is this list (up to 
me) beaten by the software of spammers?
-- 
Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew Brown
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com