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From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
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To: ken@mui.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: simple idea to rid the world of most spam
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:46:22 -0900
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On Friday 16 February 2001 13:55, ken@mui.net wrote:
> 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 ...
>
>
>
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You might want to take a look at this:

http://www.nags.org/spamfilter.html 

Beech


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