[computer-go] Re: repeat postings

[Don Dailey]

Any method I've ever heard of to stop spam imposes some penalty on
friendly users and/or has the side effect of increasing the network
load.   That's why I had doubts that this would make any real
difference.   

I was almost at a point where I wanted to just make a white-list and
throw everything else away - but that's not practical either.   I know I
would forget about some people that I would not want to reject.  

It's fairly under control now - I just get 5 or 10 per day at the most.

- Don



On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:01 -0700, Dave Dyer wrote:
> >
> >How does this foul spamming programs?   Does it prevent a spammer from
> >sending out a lot of email or just delay the receiving of it?
> 
> It doesn't delay per se, it rejects the incoming mail with a
> "try again later" tag.  The theory is that spambots which
> act as their own mailers will not retry.   I'm not sure
> how much spam it really stops, but it does make hash of
> the expectation that mail is received immediately.
> 
> IMO this is a really bad strategy for two additional reasons.  First,
> it takes something that is intended as a fallback/recovery procedure
> (ie; retrying) and makes it part of the protocol, which just gums up
> the works for everyone.  Second, if it were even marginally sucessful,
> spambots would simply evolve to keep track of retry requests.
> 
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