SPAM and archives (Was: Re: [plug] PHP question..)

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Fri Jul 4 14:30:32 WST 2003


In message <1057295391.12688.9.camel at latte.internal.itmaze.com.au>
on Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:09:51PM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:
> I'm sure that Tony is basing this encoding scheme on the research
> that was recently completed about this phenomenon.

Thanks for the reference, I was wondering where it was documented.
However, although the research extensively tested past and current
patterns of harvesting behaviour, it made no predications about
tomorrow's practices (which is what the changes to the PLUG archives are
for) other than to presume they will be largely the same. Fortunately,
Tony seems to have now employed a combination of defensive practices.




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