Big Brother tells me that Brett Randall wrote:
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Jespersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> A better alternative, IMHO, is to use a certain anti-spam e-mail
> address (someone on this list uses it but I can't remember who) that
That would be I. For mailing lists, it is even better:
1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces emails sent to it with a message indicating
that the address has expired. The return address of this message has an
encrypted timestamp, such as:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. Encrypted addresses such as above have their timestamp verified as recent.
Old messages are bounced exactly as in #1.
These two steps prevent 'cold call' emails. Your email to me must be
a response to an email from me. Very soon, I will have this patched so that
emails with a valid signature from a key on my ring are always accepted.
Also, I allow certain addresses in under certain criteria.
For mailing lists, I do the following:
3. I subscribe to each list as a different address, such as the one for this
list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4. Email coming to [EMAIL PROTECTED] has its headers checked to see if
it was processed by the appropriate list server.
5a. Mail passing #4 is put into my qmail folder (I have over 200 hundred
folders). I have a shell script for reading each of these folders (or
specifed ones), which set MAILUSER and MAILHOST.
5b. Mail not passing #4 is redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; see step #1.
So far, I have not seen any spam to my qmail address 8-).
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