> I'm surprised we haven't taken the easiest step of all of spam > prevention: putting the directory behind some sort of CAPTCHA as well > as password protecting the lists of all the system administrators on > campus. As a student I deleted myself from the directory and never had > a single spam. When I started working for the university, I was added > to the online directory (you cannot opt out of it) and to the list of > system administrators, and that's when the spam started for me. How do you propose we put LDAP behind a CAPTCHA? ./matt