Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/SpamCapturingCanBeUseful Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/SpamCapturingCanBeUseful?atomcommentsDWiki2019-04-12T18:49:30ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/SpamCapturingCanBeUseful.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/spam/SpamCapturingCanBeUsefultag:CSpace:blog/spam/SpamCapturingCanBeUseful:aae5f39b061cb0dc93db406f1e4a75588d4d05ecChris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Basically I don't have enough activity on either side to make such a
check a useful feature. My sinkhole accepts very little spam to start
with (because most of what it would otherwise accept is boring, like
advance fee fraud, which I already have a ton of samples of), and it
doesn't really get the same kind of spam as our main mailserver does.</p>
<p>If I needed this in any non-casual way, I would probably end up trapping
samples on the main mail server. Both the technical and the policy issues
are things we could deal with if we needed to.</p>
<p>(The simple way to deal with the policy issues is not to look at trapped
samples until and unless the person they were sent to gives us the okay.
I think most of our users would say 'sure' under the circumstances,
especially if we only trapped copies of things that we were rejecting
to start with.)</p>
</div>2019-04-12T18:49:30ZBy Aristotle Pagaltzis on /blog/spam/SpamCapturingCanBeUsefultag:CSpace:blog/spam/SpamCapturingCanBeUseful:3e5fe82fb340c3d54af6b399f7eb23bc9bc997a1Aristotle Pagaltzishttp://plasmasturm.org/<div class="wikitext"><p>Maybe equip the sinkhole with some kind of trait matching so it can look out for kinds of spam that you are currently specifically interested in and alert you to them? Or do you have too few use cases to justify the effort for such a feature?</p>
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