Nicholas-
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 01:43, Brion Vibber wrote:
The wikidown address has been getting spam in the last few days... I don't know if Lee still has it forwarding to his beeper, but that could be awful annoying. :P
Suggestions?
Auto-reject anything that doesn't have a certain string in it?
Naturally this can't be something simply tossed along side the address. I'd suggest omething like "Add pi to itself. For the purposes of this exercise, pi is three-point-one-four. Include the result in the subject.". Takes two seconds, not worth the effort for spammers to try and parse automatically (yet), and not terribly likely to show up as an actual part of the spam.
A simple "the body needs to contain the message 'The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo'" should be completely sufficient. Spammers are usually bots.
Alternatively, just set up SpamAssassin. It catches most of the spam.
Regards,
Erik