On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:27:51AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > http://tmda.net/index.html
What's new about address based spam filtering? How much of a PITA would this be for, say, a developer who releases software with his email address as the contact for bug/wishes etc? Lots of legitimate email from unknown addresses. And what about businesses? "Sorry we didn't get back for a few days, we had to check that all our mail from new contacts wasn't spam ... and sorry you had to do so much work to send this to us." Not to mention, spoofing an email address isn't that hard, and spammers are getting more clever at using anti-spam services to spoof email - the sending address becomes the receiving address of rejected mail, and it's coming from a different server now. What you don't want is garbage in the message. You do want to get legitimate messages without hassle, right? http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html bmf (@ freshmeat, IIRC) is much more efficient than spamassassin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PS What I really dislike is people who have "Please verify who you are" type "spam catchers" on the email addresses they use on public mailing lists where they ask for replies. _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
