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question

PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:41 am
by Gumbo
perhaps I don“t understand the system... if a spammer gets to know about spamgourmet, and he has my adress
someword.3.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com, and he knows how to use smamgourmet, he can just invent new addresses to send his spam to me:

1otherword.20.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com
2otherword.20.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com
3otherword.20.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com
4otherword.20.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com
5otherword.20.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com
6otherword.20.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com
7otherword.20.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com
8otherword.20.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com

and so on. So spam will still be possible. Am I wrong?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:13 pm
by josh
sure, but please note:

1) spammers don't do that -- we've seen a couple of *messages* sent that way in 4 years, but that's it
2) you can deal with that by using watchwords (preferred) or
3) you can deal with that by using a prefix


I personally don't think spamgourmet is big enough to worry about a meaningful focused circumvention effort by spammers in any event, but the presence of prefix and watchword functionality (even without knowing how much it's actually used) would tend to further reduce the speculative value of any such effort from the perspective of a spammer

PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:18 am
by SysKoll
Not to mention that it would not go very far. If you try to mailbomb an sg user, other protections come into play, such as the limit on the number of messages per hour.