----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:05 AM
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] URL's in Body
as IP4r type..
Hi;
I am just
brainstorming.. Pro.. con?
We know one
thing about spam.. someone is trying to sell something.. so in every spam
there has to be a way for the spammer to be contacted
through:
1: Web
site visit (URL or IP),
2:
email
3: Phone
number
In general I
have seen no more than one or two of the above unique entries in a single
spam.
In the absence
of a point of contact there is no point in the broadcasted mass
mail.
Of course the
above is the obvious ..
While all IP4r
tests concentrate on finding the point of origin of the email what if we try
to block the email content?
So what
if..
1: An added
program be written as an add-on to Declude that extracts the unique emails,
URL's, IP's or phone numbers from the body of the email.
2: Sends
these numbers as query to a server much like the IP4r tests for
response.
Would this not
work?
I know with our
filter tests we have pretty much blocked all spam. In the last month I
have had one spam that came through and the rest are all blocked. So if
we are to expand on this the logical step, in my opinion, is to have a
centralized check point for all the entries we have.
We can
brainstorm about this and bring out bad, good, what if's, .. may be
collectively we can solve this problem.
Bad
idea!?
Regards,
Kami
