[H-GEN] Spam, Humbug lists

[Trent Waddington]

Bradley Marshall wrote:

>Sounds a lot like TMDA (http://tmda.net/).  I haven't used it, but it sounds
>like it does what you're talking about.
>  
>

Unfortunately some spammers use email addresses that they actually 
monitor so sending a challenge actually encourages them to send you more 
spam (because they don't actually look at the replies).  I've read about 
people who use TMDA and have graphed their blocked spam growing 
exponentially.  Not to mention all the spammers who use faked email 
addresses and you end up with two thousand people bitching at you for 
sending them challenges when they never sent anything to you, or worse 
yet, when two TMDA users happen upon each other and slam each other with 
challenges that neither of them recognise because of a slight mail mangling.

Trent