[Tutor] A NOVEL IDEA- no more spam!

[Rob]

Interestingly enough, every message in this thread was filtered by a rule I
have set up that deletes email messages with an exclamation point in the
subject line. I just noticed them all sitting in the trash awaiting my
judgment.

heh,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tutor-admin@python.org [mailto:tutor-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of
> Kirk Bailey
> Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 1:13 AM
> To: tutor@python.org
> Cc: monkeyshines@howlermonkey.net; tinylist-devlopers@tinylist.org;
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: [Tutor] A NOVEL IDEA- no more spam!
>
>
> 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
>
>
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