We achieve here thru a sort of mod'd whitelists at our shop that do apply certain content filtering and virii checking rules..
Although, becoming a nuisance; I still believe the amount of work done and putting in immensely technical stuff for end-user to cope up with; to prevent email abuses is more than that is justified. Somebody, wrote an article called *Time to replace SMTP* .. I think its about time ! regards, Lahu Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We're only doing this here because speaking to Noel @apacheconeu he wasn't >sure what to do to kick of the discussion, and we thought, start it here >and see if a better home becomes obvious. > >On the specific issue, I would agree that it could only realistically be a >whitelisting technique, but even allowing for that it does give you some >strong identity management for your whitelist. > >If you whitelist my my @apache address and it starts appearing as the >sender or return address on spam or virii you would have to remove me from >your whitelist, and filter the mail >If you whitelist my signature you can blacklist my address *unless* it >contains a valid signature, and voila even though there's a from-danny >mailstorm raging, I can still beam mail directly at you and have it get >right through. d. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
