Spam reaching kids is a terrible shame. I think they should be treated in a special way...
One thing we've been recommending to some of our Message Sniffer customers is to set up a sniffer license that works in reverse and apply it optionally (using Declude pro) to children's accounts as an added service. Rather than trying to stop spam, this rule base would reject everything at first, and then only allow in messages that are from appropriate sources - such as schools, friends, family, etc. In other words, the rulebase starts of entirely black and only whitelists senders that are explicitely authorized. You don't need Message Sniffer to do this of course, and it's not a reasonable strategy for most organizations, but it is a good strategy for any under-age folks on the 'net since they have a very limited legitimate circle and should probably have some tight controls. Administration can be pretty simple really since kids can request a special "password" that they can give to their friends. The password is encoded into the rule base so that any message containing the password gets through... this makes it easy to handle things "on the fly" until a particular message source can be permanently coded into the rule base. If the password is ever abused, then it can simply be changed. _M >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Leske >Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:49 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [IMail Forum] [OT] Symantec Sporn Survey > > >Here's a very good reason to help stop spam: > >http://theregister.com/content/55/31103.html > >~Rick > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
