On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:31:47PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
Actually, my analysis of spam seems to indicate authentication of remote SMTP servers through a process similar to joining this list would remove 99+% of SPAM. i.e. the first email from a particular remote server that is received, requires the sender to take some action (respond with a password, click on a URL, etc.) before the mail gets through. One of these days I hope to write the procmail rules to do it (if I don't find someone that has done it already)
Such a beast lives already: Tagged Message Delivery Agent. http://software.libertine.org/tmda/ Yours, Luca -- Luca Filipozzi, ECE Dept. IT Manager, University of British Columbia Office: MacLeod 257 Voice: 604.822.3976 Web: www.ece.ubc.ca/~lucaf gpgkey 5A827A2D - A149 97BD 188C 7F29 779E 09C1 3573 32C4 5A82 7A2D