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SubjectRe: Postgrey experiment at VGER
>May I suggest a smarter way to filter these spammers, by just whitelisting 
>email addresses of valid posters, after sending a confirmation for the
>first post. Now if these spammers get smart, and start using personal
>email addresses, I would certainly expect some real action by abused email
>address owners.

Spammers will fake the from-address, possibly using the address of a
spam-trap for the from-field. Your challenge will then be sent to the
spam-trap, causing vger to be blacklisted.


Folkert van Heusden

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