Have any of you seen the spam prevention system Brightmail uses. I found
it well thought-out, and is quite similar to what you folks are talking
about. If what you have not looked at it, I would recommend it, as it
may give this development some ideas.
www.brightmail.com
Adelante!!! - Eric
Russell Nelson escribi�:
>
> [ I've been in India for the past twelve days, helping rediff.com get
> rid of sendmail. Catching up on old mail. ]
>
> 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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