----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of development issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:55 AM Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Distributed RBL
> On Thursday 25 September 2003 04:27, pineapple wrote: > > > I don't think blacklists, even > > on freenet is the right answer. > > Agreed. > > > The solution to spam > > is to move from the current push techonology to pull > > technology. > > I disagree. Hugely inefficient. Polling is not the way forward, when it can be > avoided. Really? Seems to work just fine for the World Wide Web. What's really inefficient is all this SPAM flooding mail networks. To help out, mail servers will still play a role by aggregating their users' whitelisted domains to be polled. Honestly I think that polling is probably the only workable solution even though it's inefficient. The alternative is identifying the originator of any email and punishing those who abuse it, a solution I find totally unacceptable. I have the feeling the list manager is probably frowning on this off-topic thread. Maybe we could move it to chat? > > > To build whitelists, > > Yes, white lists are a step in the right direction. A huge reduction in spam > would come about from simply listing correct/acceptable email addresses for > you. 99% of spam comes with forged from and to headers. If the To: header > doesn't contain one of your vaild email addresses, OR a valid email address > of one of the mailing lists you are willingly subscribed to, mark it as spam > and just bounce it there and then. > > Gordan > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
