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Date:      Mon, 06 May 2002 11:10:12 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: You've Been Removed! 
Message-ID:  <200205061010.g46AACoI036004@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <200205060013.g460DYn54044@apollo.backplane.com> ; from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>  "Sun, 05 May 2002 17:13:34 PDT."
References:  <200205060013.g460DYn54044@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>     I think the lists should remain open.  A perfect solution would be
>     to have the mail system keep a database of originators (From: and
>     the first Received: header).  Whenever it sees an email from someone
>     not in the database it would request that the person acknowledge
>     that they really intended to send the email and, if they do, their
>     email goes through and they are added to the database (so it only
>     asks them once).

How does that differ from subscription+autodeleting-list-content?

>     I've been contemplating writing such a beast for myself, since 90%
>     of the email I receive these days is spam.  I'm sure others have
>     written similar things so I'm wondering if there is a solution out
>     there already.  At some point I'm going to write mine (as a standalone
>     MX relay so it could be tied into any system), when I have more time
>     available.

Existing mailing list managers can already do this. It effectively makes
it easy to join the list, but not receive the list contents.

M
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