From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 14:57: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rocksalt.mui.net (ken.adsl.hi.net [12.36.98.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2504337B401 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:57:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from lihing (lihing.mui.net [12.36.98.244]) by rocksalt.mui.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1GMv0J24585; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:57:00 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from ken@rocksalt.mui.net) From: ken@mui.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:55:32 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: simple idea to rid the world of most spam Cc: sendmail@sendmail.org Message-ID: <3A8D2344.2111.DF44E0@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok all, here's something that has been bugging me for months. It's a very very simple idea, but I don't have the knowledge to do this: Have you ever noticed how spam seems to come in the same order and how there's a ton of incorrect email addresses that is sent? Why can't some kind of email filter be set up that works like this? incorrect email sent to account A-----> turn flag on 2nd incorrect email sent to account B ---------> turn 2nd flag on if 2 flags, then refuse ALL email sent from that account, place that name in the ban list. The chances of someone sending email to 2 accounts that never existed = 99% chance that person is sending spam. I've already talked to some people till I'm blue in the face. I'm certainly not smart enough to code it, but I'm hoping someone smart out there does this ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message