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Edward S. Marshall writes:
> 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 would be membership based. Probably comparing the envelope sender
and site would be sufficiently safe.
> It seems to me that this is a system that would imply a great deal of
> trust.
The trust could be developed.
> 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.
Yes, probably.
> 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.
Supposedly RSS is already doing that.
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