Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Darin Cox
I agree.  We see forging attacks like this periodically.  While not every
day, there's usually one every week, and when they hit, they hit hard.  If
we whitelisted or even negative-weighted addresses people sent to, when
these attacks hit we would let through a ton of spam.

We would _never_ consider this technique, though admittedly our filters are
doing well and our leak rate is less than 0.5%.  In fact, one of our biggest
problems is people who put their own address in the webmail address book and
effectively whitelist their own email address, letting through anything that
forges.  Every time over the past 8 years a customer has complained about
spam, that has been the cause.

Darin.


- Original Message -
From: "Andy Schmidt" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:03 AM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on


>> I couldn't think of any specific instances where you would not want to
>> whitelist a recipient's address.  Obviously nobody should be emailing a
>> spammer. <<

In general, that's reasonable - but certainly not bullet-proof. Since
spammers always use other people's email addresses (specially phishing,
trojan and virus emails), these messages will now be white-listed instead of
being caught. This is specially true when people's mailboxes or PC have been
infiltrated (millions of them are) and the malware will send it's infected
messages (or links to phishing site) to everyone in THAT person's address
book - so that their friends trust the email was being from their
friend/acquaintance.

All these messages will now be trusted by Imail just because they CLAIM to
come from the "friend".

So - it does open a potentially big garage door for malware link and
infected emails to make it past Declude.

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:20 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

I couldn't think of any specific instances where you would not want to
whitelist a recipient's address.  Obviously nobody should be emailing a
spammer.

I was tryng to cover the bases for those instances that exist but can't be
foreseen yet.

Pondering it a little more  -- one type of an exclusion that would be needed
is if you had a forum where users register and your server sends out a
confirmation/activation email.  Or you send an email as a result of someone
submitting a contact form on your site. In those cases, the "from" address
for your forum or "from" address from your submission form would be the
excluder so that no recipient of email from those automated systems would be
given any credit.



-Original Message-
From: David Barker [mailto:dbar...@declude.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:49 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what
scenario would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude.

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Sanford Whiteman
AutoWhite doesn't whitelist, it counterweights.  Whether you counterweight 
enough to be tantamount to whitelisting is up to you and your setup.

You should read the documentation for AW (if it is still available) before 
deciding that a base was not covered.

-- Sandy


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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread David Barker
Right on Andy. I agree with you this is why scoring negative weights for good 
emails rather than whitelisting is a safer option.

-Original Message-
From: Andy Schmidt [mailto:andy_schm...@hm-software.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:03 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

>> I couldn't think of any specific instances where you would not want to 
>> whitelist a recipient's address.  Obviously nobody should be emailing a 
>> spammer. <<

In general, that's reasonable - but certainly not bullet-proof. Since spammers 
always use other people's email addresses (specially phishing, trojan and virus 
emails), these messages will now be white-listed instead of being caught. This 
is specially true when people's mailboxes or PC have been infiltrated (millions 
of them are) and the malware will send it's infected messages (or links to 
phishing site) to everyone in THAT person's address book - so that their 
friends trust the email was being from their friend/acquaintance.

All these messages will now be trusted by Imail just because they CLAIM to come 
from the "friend".

So - it does open a potentially big garage door for malware link and infected 
emails to make it past Declude.

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:20 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

I couldn't think of any specific instances where you would not want to
whitelist a recipient's address.  Obviously nobody should be emailing a
spammer.

I was tryng to cover the bases for those instances that exist but can't be
foreseen yet.

Pondering it a little more  -- one type of an exclusion that would be needed
is if you had a forum where users register and your server sends out a
confirmation/activation email.  Or you send an email as a result of someone
submitting a contact form on your site. In those cases, the "from" address
for your forum or "from" address from your submission form would be the
excluder so that no recipient of email from those automated systems would be
given any credit.



-Original Message-
From: David Barker [mailto:dbar...@declude.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:49 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what
scenario would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Andy Schmidt
>> I couldn't think of any specific instances where you would not want to 
>> whitelist a recipient's address.  Obviously nobody should be emailing a 
>> spammer. <<

In general, that's reasonable - but certainly not bullet-proof. Since spammers 
always use other people's email addresses (specially phishing, trojan and virus 
emails), these messages will now be white-listed instead of being caught. This 
is specially true when people's mailboxes or PC have been infiltrated (millions 
of them are) and the malware will send it's infected messages (or links to 
phishing site) to everyone in THAT person's address book - so that their 
friends trust the email was being from their friend/acquaintance.

All these messages will now be trusted by Imail just because they CLAIM to come 
from the "friend".

So - it does open a potentially big garage door for malware link and infected 
emails to make it past Declude.

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:20 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

I couldn't think of any specific instances where you would not want to
whitelist a recipient's address.  Obviously nobody should be emailing a
spammer.

I was tryng to cover the bases for those instances that exist but can't be
foreseen yet.

Pondering it a little more  -- one type of an exclusion that would be needed
is if you had a forum where users register and your server sends out a
confirmation/activation email.  Or you send an email as a result of someone
submitting a contact form on your site. In those cases, the "from" address
for your forum or "from" address from your submission form would be the
excluder so that no recipient of email from those automated systems would be
given any credit.



-Original Message-
From: David Barker [mailto:dbar...@declude.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:49 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what
scenario would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Kamran Razvan
Thanks Dave,

Just to show you how it works:

[AUTOWHITE.1]   external>1  "M:\autowhite\autowhite.exe / /R5 /L1 %MAILFROM% %REALRECIPS%" -500
[AUTOWHITE.2]   external>2  "M:\autoWhite\autowhite.exe / /R5 /L1 %MAILFROM% %REALRECIPS%" -100   0

In here if someone is sent an email to a person then the program tracks how 
many times that email has been emailed to.  Next time when the person emails us 
the program looks at the sender's counter and we add -50 for 1 hit and -100 for 
2 hits and more.  Effectively if I email someone twice they are whitelisted.

Kami


-Original Message-
From: David Barker [mailto:dbar...@declude.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:48 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on


The author is John Tolmachoff of 
http://www.eservicesforyou.com/products/autowhite.html

-Original Message-
From: Kamran Razvan [mailto:kami.l...@clickandpledge.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:41 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: FW: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

Dave,

This program is the exact behavior that autowhite had and one that we are using 
now.  Unfortunately I don't remember who had written it.  Anyone remembers?

The program works beautifully.  Every time I sent an email the person's email 
address is added a negative weight.  We use it in a combo filter and whitelist 
the person in all future emails.

I know the author decided not to work on it anymore but we have been using it 
for years.

Regards,
Kami



-Original Message-
From: David Barker [mailto:dbar...@declude.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:49 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on


Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what scenario 
would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread David Barker
The author is John Tolmachoff of 
http://www.eservicesforyou.com/products/autowhite.html

-Original Message-
From: Kamran Razvan [mailto:kami.l...@clickandpledge.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:41 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: FW: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

Dave,

This program is the exact behavior that autowhite had and one that we are using 
now.  Unfortunately I don't remember who had written it.  Anyone remembers?

The program works beautifully.  Every time I sent an email the person's email 
address is added a negative weight.  We use it in a combo filter and whitelist 
the person in all future emails.

I know the author decided not to work on it anymore but we have been using it 
for years.

Regards,
Kami



-Original Message-
From: David Barker [mailto:dbar...@declude.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:49 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on


Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what scenario 
would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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FW: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Kamran Razvan
Dave,

This program is the exact behavior that autowhite had and one that we are using 
now.  Unfortunately I don't remember who had written it.  Anyone remembers?

The program works beautifully.  Every time I sent an email the person's email 
address is added a negative weight.  We use it in a combo filter and whitelist 
the person in all future emails.

I know the author decided not to work on it anymore but we have been using it 
for years.

Regards,
Kami



-Original Message-
From: David Barker [mailto:dbar...@declude.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:49 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on


Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what scenario 
would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Robert Grosshandler
That actually was a feature already built by someone many moons ago.  He was / 
is a Declude user.  It used to be listed on the declude site.

http://www.eservicesforyou.com/products/autowhite.html

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Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what scenario 
would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

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From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
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Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Dave Beckstrom
I couldn't think of any specific instances where you would not want to
whitelist a recipient's address.  Obviously nobody should be emailing a
spammer.

I was tryng to cover the bases for those instances that exist but can't be
foreseen yet.

Pondering it a little more  -- one type of an exclusion that would be needed
is if you had a forum where users register and your server sends out a
confirmation/activation email.  Or you send an email as a result of someone
submitting a contact form on your site. In those cases, the "from" address
for your forum or "from" address from your submission form would be the
excluder so that no recipient of email from those automated systems would be
given any credit.



-Original Message-
From: David Barker [mailto:dbar...@declude.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:49 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what
scenario would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread David Barker
Great idea Dave thanks. Question. If a user emails a recipient in what scenario 
would we not want to whitelist the recipients address ?

-Original Message-
From: Dave Beckstrom [mailto:db...@atving.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on



I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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[Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Dave Beckstrom


I have an idea for something I think would be a useful add-on for declude. 

Every time someone sends an outbound SMTP email to someone, the add-on would
add an entry to a filter giving the recipient's "to" address a weight of
minus one.  Therefore, giving the recipient a credit.  Any time the
recipient sends an email to my server, minus one gets subtracted from the
total score of their email.

If a user on my server sends a second email to the same recipient, another
minus one credit is added to the filter.  Now that recipient has a credit of
minus two.

The add-on would be configurable to limit the maximum credit a single
address could reach.  It would also have an exclusion ability where you
could enter a list of email addresses that would never receive any credit.

The idea being that the more frequently you email someone, the less likely
that email from them would be spam.

I know some will argue that "from" addresses can be forged and that perhaps
its not a good idea to give credit based on a "from" address.  But its not
very often at all I ever receive a spam that came from a friend's forged
"from" address.  I think something along the lines of this type of system
could be useful.





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