A product that does just this is spambar. Gets very enoying when someone on a mailing list starts use it and you write to the list and you have to ack your message to this person. Then someone else sees it start using it. ugh.
Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 08:22:33 AM, you wrote: TH> I have to agree that this could be one of the most powerful tools yet to TH> fight SPAM. I would pay money for this even if it were a seperate product! TH> A couple of questions about the implementation: TH> 1- If the sender does not acknowledge the confirm request, do they go onto TH> the blacklist? This could be helpful if its given a TTL and when expired TH> goes onto the blacklist. This would help reduce traffic when a spammer sends TH> repeated messages. TH> 2- Will it be server and per user based? I don't want to configure anything TH> on the client for this and I don't want to traffic to/from the client for TH> confirm request/receipt. TH> 3- Would it be specific to Imail? Would it be a gateway in front of the TH> mail server? TH> 4- How will the onslaught of "undeliverable" messages be handled? I would TH> imagine that most of the SPAM messages would not have valid senders, and TH> those would produce "undeliverable" messages. TH> 5- If a message from a blacklisted address arrives, can it be put into a TH> hold bin instead of deleted? Maybe the Imail SPAM folder, so we can TH> continue to SpamReview on them. TH> Thanks and I want to push for this product!! TH> Todd TH> -----Original Message----- TH> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of decjunkmail TH> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:41 AM TH> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Enhancements - unknown sender must reply to TH> ack TH> I think I saw this as somewhere else but never heard about it being released TH> or implemented: TH> System maintains a per-user "whitelist" of people that are allowed to send TH> email to that user TH> If an incoming mail is not on the "whitelist", it is returned to the sender TH> automatically (the user never sees this first attempt) with a request to TH> "confirm" they are sending the email. TH> The sender confirms by replying to this request message and then the TH> original message will be delivered. TH> This has the benefit of: TH> Automated for the user. they just start out with an "empty" individual TH> white-list. TH> Catches most spam - since the "confirm" message will bounce if it is sent to TH> a fake sender and that accounts for a lot of the spam TH> Can be customized - user can reset or manually change their "whitelist" if TH> they want to. TH> works for the naiive user - simple system config can enable or disable the TH> feature per-user but the actual user need do nothing (doesn't have to learn TH> anything) TH> The spam that does slip thru would still be processed by all the usual TH> weighted scoring algorithms. TH> --- TH> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus TH> (http://www.declude.com)] TH> --- TH> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To TH> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and TH> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail TH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web TH> site at http://www.declude.com . TH> --- TH> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] TH> --- TH> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] TH> --- TH> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] TH> --- TH> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To TH> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and TH> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail TH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web TH> site at http://www.declude.com . TH> --- TH> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Best regards, Eje Gustafsson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The Family Entertainment Network http://www.fament.com Phone : 620-231-7777 Fax : 620-231-4066 eBay UserID : macahan - Your Full Time Professionals - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
