Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: current@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: usregsite.com Message-ID: <199705201806.LAA06278@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199705201444.HAA06559@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "May 20, 97 07:44:55 am"
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> guess that i am getting a little over-zealous in looking for spam. I had an idea the other day while trying to learn procmail... 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
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