dfeed/gravatar issue

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sun Dec 11 22:15:46 PST 2011


"Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote in message 
news:zozzeqblwmmqfbyfyitw at dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
>
> 2) Post with a valid e-mail address? I use a working e-mail address, which 
> redirects to Gmail. Uncaught spam is a very rare occurrence (less than 
> once a month).

I get considerably less spam than even that. And I get *guaranteed* zero 
false positives. Yes, that's right.

I do this by never advertising my real address in spammer harvest grounds 
(like NGs), or to websites, and by never using spam filters. I've been doing 
this for years and it works better than any spam filter that has ever or 
will ever be in existence.

Spam filters (much like just about anything Google is big into) are a 
fundamentally broken approach.

> It is possible to use Gmail as a spam filter, since it can both download 
> e-mail from another POP/IMAP server, and redirect it after it's been 
> filtered.
>
> 3) It would be possible to add some kind of feature on DFeed which would 
> allow you to specify your real e-mail address, which would be sent 
> (obfuscated) as an extra header. DFeed would recognize this header and use 
> it for Gravatar display. It is probably not worth complicating the UI for 
> this, though.
>
> 3b) We could decide on an e-mail munging scheme that DFeed can recognize 
> for Gravatar displays.

I actually use Gravitar and I'm convinced it's really not that great of a 
site in the first place. The whole approach is all wrong.





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