>Think about this for a second... The simplest way to filter out all junk
>E-mail on any given system which supports a substantial number of different
>and independent E-mail accounts/user-IDs would be to write a little routine
>in your MTA (or add a front end for your MTA) which simply keeps track of
>the number of messages incoming from a given IP address within the past N
>minutes (where `N' is some modest number like 30, 60, 120, or 180).
Dunno whether this is true but I'm sure you'll never get any but a minority
of list owners to implement it without coercing them somehow and that would
be wrong. People can't even adhere to a reasonably uniform bounce message
format, and there are demonstrable economic and social benefits (selfish
ones!) to that, so why would the sea part for this?
Another idea, somewhat comparable, is a standard that dictates the format
of all automated list subscriptions which would be sent to the individual's
ISP, not to the list server, there to have the local ISP automatically take
note of the list and allow it through, and forward the request to the list
server. Otherwise no BCCed mail or multiple hits. This is a trivial
software problem if the standard exists but it never will and if it does
people will ignore it especially Microsoft. 8)
Show of hands: nope, we don't have a spam problem in any case and no wish
to open the list to non-subscribers so we can have the opportunity to
pursue all this encryption. 8)
--Ken
type2.com webmaster "If stupidity hurt like a toothache people
might do something about it." --Greg Swann
