From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 23:21: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7391537B400 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail8.wlv.netzero.net (mail8.wlv.netzero.net [209.247.163.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE69643E72 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from idiot1@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 15401 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2002 06:20:52 -0000 Received: from dialup-65.58.238.171.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (65.58.238.171) by mail8.wlv.netzero.net with SMTP; 15 Sep 2002 06:20:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3D8424F9.73E9507C@netzero.net> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:13:13 -0400 From: Kirk Bailey Organization: Silas Dent Memorial Cabal of ERIS Esoteric and hot dog boiling society X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "tutor@python.org" Cc: monkeyshines@howlermonkey.net, tinylist-devlopers@tinylist.org, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: A NOVEL IDEA- no more spam! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, recently I saw a site with an intresting idea. SPAM PROOFING. Idea is, it maintains a list of people who may send email to you. Anyone else sends in a email, they get one back, explaining it is in storage for 7 days, they have to go there, put in their address and a brief explanation of why they should be allowed to email you, then click submit on the form. This unlocks their identity and they can send email to you. After 7 days, any message is deleted. Almost all spam is robotic, this process will never happen. The owner of such email account is spamproof. This can be somewhat simplified. No 7 day stuff, you're not in the list, you get /dev/nul in your face. You want on the list, you go to a form and ask to be placed there, or even simpler, click a url in a person's sig block and go to a form to do so yourself. Again, no robot will be doing this. Local delivery is handed off by sendmail to a program called mail, usually located in '/bin' (ok, in my FreeBSD setup, it is in '/usr/bin/' Now, of we wrap a shell around it, we could look at the message and examine it's From: field and TO: field, open the user's OK.2mail file (just made the name up, DON'T PANIC!), and IF THE SENDER IS IN THERE we run mail and hand off the message, OTHERWISE we send off a terse email explaining the situation with the correct link included- and toss away the email. The FROM field is to an alias which feeds directly into /dev/nul so bounces from fraudulent and cancelled accounts just go away. Gee, I wonder what language to write the scripts in... ;-) This is the roughing out the concept stage, hacking at a large pad with my box of crayons and wishing I had a beer. Anyone else want to toss a cinderblock in the wading pool along side mine? If the list does not think this is the palace to kick this around, we can take it off list- and I know a place that provides great free list service... -- end Respectfully, Kirk D Bailey +---------------------"Thou Art Free." -Eris-----------------------+ | http://www.howlermonkey.net mailto:highprimate@howlermonkey.net | | KILL spam dead! http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/#Pledge | | http://www.tinylist.org +--------+ mailto:grumpy@tinylist.org | +------------------Thinking| NORMAL |Thinking----------------------+ +--------+ ------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance Unlimited Long Distance only $29.95/ month! Sign Up Today! www.netzerolongdistance.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message