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.



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