This would also entail modification of the list software, which I don't think is something that they want to do.
Each user's "string" would have to be stored somewhere. --- Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Email is still more convenient (for users, when the emails are screened :) > I'm trying to think if there is a simple way to filter out the spam. > Will this work: since mailing lists require subscription. We can ask > the subscriber to define a "signature" string, for example, one's own > signature string, with or without decorations, to form a unique > signature of one's emails. Then we can write a filter to sit before > the SMTP server to look for the unique string for all users. If an > email does not contain a signature string of any of the users, it's > a spam email. The assumption is that the spam senders won't be patient > enough to find out how this filter works. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk