[Tutor] Re: [your list here] A NOVEL IDEA- no more spam!
Kirk Bailey
idiot1@netzero.net
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:45:42 -0400
Hey, ya wanna look at the site sparkplugging the idea?
http://spamarrest.com/
Kirk Bailey wrote:
>
> OK, recently I saw a site with an intresting idea. SPAM PROOFING.
>
> Idea is, it maintains a list of people who may send email to you. Anyone else
> sends in a email, they get one back, explaining it is in storage for 7 days,
> they have to go there, put in their address and a brief explanation of why they
> should be allowed to email you, then click submit on the form. This unlocks
> their identity and they can send email to you. After 7 days, any message is
> deleted.
>
> Almost all spam is robotic, this process will never happen. The owner of such
> email account is spamproof.
>
> This can be somewhat simplified. No 7 day stuff, you're not in the list, you get
> /dev/nul in your face. You want on the list, you go to a form and ask to be
> placed there, or even simpler, click a url in a person's sig block and go to a
> form to do so yourself. Again, no robot will be doing this.
>
> Local delivery is handed off by sendmail to a program called mail, usually
> located in '/bin' (ok, in my FreeBSD setup, it is in '/usr/bin/' Now, of we
> wrap a shell around it, we could look at the message and examine it's From:
> field and TO: field, open the user's OK.2mail file (just made the name up, DON'T
> PANIC!), and IF THE SENDER IS IN THERE we run mail and hand off the message,
> OTHERWISE we send off a terse email explaining the situation with the correct
> link included- and toss away the email. The FROM field is to an alias which
> feeds directly into /dev/nul so bounces from fraudulent and cancelled accounts
> just go away.
>
> Gee, I wonder what language to write the scripts in... ;-)
>
> This is the roughing out the concept stage, hacking at a large pad with my box
> of crayons and wishing I had a beer. Anyone else want to toss a cinderblock in
> the wading pool along side mine? If the list does not think this is the palace
> to kick this around, we can take it off list- and I know a place that provides
> great free list service...
>
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>
> end
>
> Respectfully,
> Kirk D Bailey
>
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