hi ya jaroslaw On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Jaroslaw Tabor wrote:
> In mean time, I've found additional way for spam filtering, but it > requires some development. The basic idea is simple and already in use: > We are allowing all emails from whitelits. already done ... most MTA support a whitelist and blacklists > For unknown sender, automated confirmation request is send. If > confirmation comes, receiver can decide to put new sender on white or > black list (by reply with prepared subject and token). .... > I'm planning to develop this feauture, but It will be nice to hear from > what you thing about this idea. if you're developing a challenge thingie ... don't bother ... (i'll be the 6th to discourage your efforts on that front ) if you're writing a whitelist/blacklist stuff ... why ??? but if you're writting code to take incoming spam, and add it to the blacklist automatically... that'd be tricky ... - what is the definition of "spam" ? (i say anyting that is left, after i finished reading the emails) - "hundred dozens" other definitions of "what is spam" - than i run my silly script and it all goes to the 'blacklist' - if you make your rbl ( blacklist ) available for others to use .. that has some merit .. as long as one can also prove that they spammed ya ( since spammers are sometimes sue happy ) - i hate and never reply to challenge systems and i go do business elsewhere - even those silly whois database queries at the domain registrars are starting to get super annoying c ya alvin