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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
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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
>