Re: [spamtools] ORBS follow-up requirements ?

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Steven Champeon wrote:
> on Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:43:43AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 4) people should be able to just bounce (or forward?) a spam
> >    message to a robot, which will test the sites that relayed
> >    the mail if one of the following requirements are met:
> >         4a) regular expressions show this is most likely a spam
> >         4b) human intervention marks the message a spam (and adds
> >             another regexp to the list used for 4a)
>
> I see tremendous potential for forgery here, don't you?

The idea was to just _test_ these sites for being an open
relay. Yes, forgery is possible, but all that would achieve
is us testing a site that isn't an open relay (and putting
that site in the OK list of sites to not check again for a
month).

regards,

Rik
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