[Xitami] Xitami and PHP (fwd)

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <6.0.0.14.0.20040418183640.027cc810@mail.verfaillie.com>
   Marc Doigny writes:
> At 18:00 18/04/04, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk> wrote:
> >Has anyone else seen this sort of stupidity when they post articles to
> >the list?
> 
> The problem is not the anti-spam, but the spam.
> We also have an anti-spam engine, and i am thinking of implementing this 
> sort of measure.
> Our server (small company) receives thousands of spam messages a day, and 
> this challenge-response is the only way left to reject spam. Most spammers 
> know by now how to circumvent Baesian filtering.

People enrolled on mailing lists should ensure that all traffic from the
list is acceptable, and not require that individual subscribers pass the
response token.  Otherwise, they have no right to be on the list.

> But sometimes maintaining the anti-spam engine is more work than deleting 
> each spam message.

There is NO technical solution to spam; it requires a political fix.

-- 
   fix (vb.): 1. to paper over, obscure, hide from public view; 2. to
   work around, in a way that produces unintended consequences that are
   worse than the original problem.  Usage: "Windows ME fixes many of the
   shortcomings of Windows 98 SE".