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Run a spam filter on the incoming messages, if the filter tags them suspicios, require manual review before postage. Another option would be to check whether t
by madhouse 16y ago
Run a spam filter on the incoming messages, if the filter tags them suspicios, require manual review before postage.
Another option would be to check whether the abusers are coming from a specific IP range, and simply deny access to them.
- CWIZO 16y ago+1 if they are sending regular SPAM that you get on the internet, then regular SPAM filters (like askimet) will be perfect.
- gus_massa 16y agoIf they use a bayesian filter (for example SpamBayes) they can train it to filter exactly the kind of SPAM they are receiving. And with a little more of work, it should be possible to filter the words differently if they are in the address of the letter, the submitter or in the main text. (And they should warn the users that if they use the free try, they might read it.)
- ScottWhigham 16y agoInteresting idea. What about the expectation of privacy that a submitter might have though? Sort of creeps me out a bit to think that humans might be reading (and judging) my letters.
- madhouse 16y agoSomeone, somewhere will read it anyway. With a carefully calibrated spam filter, one could even make it so that no human interaction is needed: when the filter tags the message as spam, it tells that to the user. He can then contact the site administrator if he feels the software is at fault. Privacy preserved.
- iuguy 16y agoNotify the user of a change in privacy policy and offer a link to a page explaining why.