How does you system allow a user to pick who the recipient of the message is? Can you prevent them from easily or automatically selecting these? Provided a road block to sending out hundreds and thousands of messages, because the selection process is to long?
-------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning ....-----Original Message----- ....From: Katz, Dov B (IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ....Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:29 PM ....To: CF-Talk ....Subject: RE: How to deal with the african money scams .... ....Guys, .... ....I think you misunderstood my problem. .... ....I have a site. It requires user registration to communicate with other ....users. The communication is sent via email. Users who register are ....reuqired to confirm their randomly assigned password via email before ....completing registration. .... ....So, lets say we have one such newly registered user, who decides to ....communicate with other users on my site, by sending this stuff out to ....them. .... ....How do I prevent a registered user on my site from easily blasting ....others with these types of message. .... ....I'm not looking to prevent spam, or bayesian filters etc, I'm looking to ....prevent my web application from becoming a vehicle for this ....communication. .... ....Is there an open database or filter web service I could compare the ....attempted-to-be-sent message to see whether it is spam before I CFMAIL ....it? Should I just keep a message-send counter which counts similar ....messages sent during an existing session and lock down the ability to ....send more than X messages per Y minutes per session? .... ....This is the kind of advice I was looking for .... ....Thanks in advance, .... ....-Dov .... .... ....-----Original Message----- ....From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ....Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:20 PM ....To: CF-Talk ....Subject: Re: How to deal with the african money scams .... ....You mean those spam email confirmation things where it says "you sent me ....mail now fill in this or I won't see it"? .... ....Those are evil. Anyone using them on me gets deep-sixed. I've never ....heard a list owner say anything but vile things about them. .... ....Sorry. Touched a nerve there. .... ....-- ....--mattRobertson-- ....Janitor, MSB Web Systems ....mysecretbase.com .... .... .... .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:207800 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
