Re: [tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays

[Mirimir <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/21/2018 10:50 AM, Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:23:48 +0000, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> ...
>> I'm not sure what type of spam you are referring to, but when I post to
>> this mailing list I see spamming attempts that are directly targeting my
>> MX, without using the mailing list infrastructure. The list admins would
>> not be able to reliably correlate which subscribed address is "A" even
>> if I shared my mail logs.
> 
> Create a dummy mail address. Make the list server send out mails from
> that address very slowly at random times to the recipients. See when
> the spam arrives on the dummy address. Repeat as many times as needed
> to get sufficient correlation between spam arrival and mail distribution
> timepoints.
> 
> - Andreas

Cool idea :)

But then we'd all be getting spammed by those test messages ;)

I don't see that as a great improvement. Sex spam doesn't bother me.

Another alternative is tracking down and killing the spam sources. It'd
be a huge project, and maybe a little morally iffy. But as Marv says in
"Sin City": "I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't
feel bad." So hey. There are lots of technical folk on these tor lists.
There ought to be at least a few who'd enjoy killing some spam servers.
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