On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Is this of interest to anyone? Is anyone doing it already? It's not
> a qmail-specific thing, although the code for the sender and receiver
> would be.
There's a slight problem here...how do you prevent someone from
maliciously injecting bogus addresses into the list? Some form of
authentication included in the message to the list?
It seems to me that this is a system that would imply a great deal of
trust. I barely trust Vixie & Co. with my mail, and this potentially
involves a lot of other people. What would be the criteria for being
permitted to post to this list?
You'd also need some form of filtering to ensure that multiple copies of
the same address never make it to the mailing list, so that all the
recipients don't need to take on the work of processing them several
times.
Why not just do it as an RBL-style list, so as to make the information
more easily queried? Have the auto-submissions simply add the address to
an RBL-style DNS zone, and you're all set. Anyone with an RBL-aware system
(which is damn near anyone, these days) can then use your blacklist, and
storage/expiration would be centralized.
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