Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:17:21 -0400 From: Cat Okita <cat@uunet.ca> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: usregsite.com Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970520141531.4192O-100000@troll.uunet.ca> In-Reply-To: <199705201806.LAA06278@bubba.whistle.com>
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As the owner of a site which is often forged, I'd be quite antsy about a scheme like that...and there's an incredible potential for misuse as well... Cat Okita Systems Administrator, UUNET Canada On Tue, 20 May 1997, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Why not have a spam registry mailing list? Here's the idea: > > - Any time you get a SPAM email, you forward it to the list > "moderator", which can either be a human or a perl script. > > - The "moderator" extracts the relevant identifying information > from the SPAM email (e.g, a certain domain name in the "From" > address, etc). Here we need a good algorithm or else a > knowlegable human. > > - The moderator keeps a database of all spam sites, etc. This > list is kept updated by subscriber emails (as described above). > In addition, the moderator can also set up a decoy email address > that (s)he TRIES to get on every spam mailing list possible. > Email sent to this decoy address can also be used to fortify > the database. > > - Each day you receive via email a procmailrc(5) file snippet that > will send all mail coming from any of the registered spam sites > to /dev/null (or perhaps your favorite email enemy). > > - Your personal ~/.procmailrc file automatically saves the > daily update to ~/.procmailrc-antispam, which is included > by ~/.procmailrc using the procmail include thing. > > - Voila, THE MASSES FIGHT BACK!! > > Any takers?? > > -Archie > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com >
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