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Date:      Tue, 20 May 1997 14:07:37 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usregsite.com
Message-ID:  <19970520140737.34648@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <199705201806.LAA06278@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on May 05, 1997 at 11:06:01AM -0700
References:  <199705201444.HAA06559@hub.freebsd.org> <199705201806.LAA06278@bubba.whistle.com>

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On May 05, 1997 at 11:06:01AM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
> > guess that i am getting a little over-zealous in looking for spam.
> 
> Why not have a spam registry mailing list? Here's the idea:

This has been done, and was taken down earlier under threats of libel.

However, it could probably be done by classifying the sender/spammer on
factual criteria on what they have done.  Eg: 'this user sent me 100 posts',
or 'more than 1000 people have received copies of this message', and then
the user can themselves use this info to determine how they want to block
spam.

For a good summary of a proposed implementation, see Vernon Schryver's
posting to news.admin.net-abuse.email, <5lo2ev$iit@calcite.rhyolite.com>.
--
Jonathan



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