After giving some thought to this, I think the best way to deal with this is by changing the nature of how email is distributed. I don't think blacklists, even on freenet is the right answer. The solution to spam is to move from the current push techonology to pull technology. To build whitelists, the client's OS would have to make it simple to add email addresses just by clicking on them and changes could be made to mail servers to aggregate their users whitelists (at least the addresses the user wishes to share, the private addresses could be polled by the user's own client) and "pull" the whitelisted mail addresses accross the net (this system could be called pmail :). During this transition, clients and servers could use both the old "push" and the new "pull" systems together. If you want to discuss this further, mail me directly. This is off topic for the list I think.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:31 PM Subject: [freenet-dev] Distributed RBL > Interesting story on Slashdot today. I wonder how hard it would be to > implement in Freenet? > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/132216 > > -Pascal > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
