That same fear significantly delayed (more than a year) the launch of Message Sniffer which is loosely based on the same concept. We finally got to a position where we felt safe enough on the grounds that the end user can ultimately customize their system's responses to any message - Message Sniffer (www.sortmonster.com) is only categorizing those message to make the job easier. We're only making the hammer. The end user decides what to nail and how to nail it.
I suspect you will be safe enough if you work from that premise... this is not a legal opnion, just an opinion. I also suspect you will begin to have trouble once you get past several hundred rules (we have thousands). It becomes a real headache to manage. We used to do it that way using IMFilter. You might want to have an example message of the spam filtered by each rule - it takes some space, but it's much easier than trying to describe the rule in a way that makes sense. Good Luck, _M | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of NetQuick Mail | Administrator | Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:15 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] rules.ima | | | I believe this was mentioned in the distant past. I think the issue was | raised about possible repercussions from the owners of blocked domains. I | think a general fear of having a lawsuit killed the idea. | | Kevin Childers | ,,,,, | ����} | ~' | Customer Support Desk | (910) 486-7845 / (888) 228-0312 | Fayetteville Internet Communications | APCNet - FayNet - NetQuick - QuickWAN | The Carolinas' Fastest Internet Communications Provider | | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Adolph W. Santorine, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:37 PM | Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] rules.ima | | | > I think it would be a great idea. | > | > Adolph Santorine | > Schedule Star | > | > At 02:11 PM 2/8/2002 -0500, you wrote: | > >What would everyone think about having a section on the IMail Support | Center | > >dedicated to sharing rules? If you could have it exactly your way how | would | > >you like to see it implemented? For example a message board, | a straight | web | > >page that gets updated by email submissions to Ipswitch or an | email list? | > > | > >John Korsak | > > | > >----- Original Message ----- | > >From: "Michael E. Middleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > >Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:18 PM | > >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] rules.ima | > > | > > | > > > Allen, | > > > | > > > I have one that I'd appreciate folks to comment on, add to, | and update | for | > > > me (hehe).. But how can we do that? If I copy it into a message to | this | > > > forum, it won't make it... it is full of the very things my | server is | > >going | > > > to block. | > > > | > > > I could put it on a web page? | > > > | > > > Mike | > > > | > > > | > > > >> does anyone have a rules.ima file for spam that they | would like to | > >share? | > > > | > > > | > > > | > > > | > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html | > > > to be removed from this list. | > > > | > > > An Archive of this list is available at: | > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ | > > > | > > | > > | > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html | > >to be removed from this list. | > > | > >An Archive of this list is available at: | > >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ | > | > | > | > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html | > to be removed from this list. | > | > An Archive of this list is available at: | > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ | > | | | Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html | to be removed from this list. | | An Archive of this list is available at: | http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ | | Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
