At 3:17 PM -0700 8/20/02, David Muszynski imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >Is there some way to incorporate the services of http://www.habeas.com/ into >SIMS or is this something that will have to be done at the client level for >SIMS users?
First a caveat: Many people involved with Habeas are friends and fellow co-workers from my time at MAPS, so I'm potentially biased, however I am NOT involved with Habeas myself and so should not be considered an authoritative source. That said, it looks like there is a DNSBL under hil.habeas.com of Habeas infringers, which would be a bit silly to use at this point because Habeas is barely started, but which looks to be a no-brainer for using in the future given that it will include exclusively of people who have objectively violated the Habeas license, i.e. intentional bad actors. I will probably be adding it to my SIMS config soon, but my server can handle an extra DNS lookup per mail without any trouble. Beyond that, the primary implementation is in mail clients, where individual users can have the Habeas headers added to each message. Some MTA's *CAN* be made to do that if the operator gets a license (free for ISP's, cheap for businesses not sending to mailing lists) but there's something of a risk there and I don't think SIMS can be made to add headers to every message. I'd urge anyone looking to get an ISP or business-wide license to Habeas to look very carefully at the license and your current *actual* practices before signing, because I can be absolutely certain that Anne Mitchell is not kidding when she says that her company will enforce the license as written. As for checking for the Habeas warrant mark, that falls into the same hole as virus scanning or other header checking; SIMS just doesn't do it, so any filtering has to be done in mail clients. Which is finally starting to actually annoy me a little. It would be Very Cool for SIMS to support a generic hooking mechanism for delivery to allow people to add in arbitrary filter gadgets. Maybe just a pair of folders and a default daemon that does nothing but move files from one where SIMS drops accepted incoming mail to another that it does local delivery from. If you want filtering, you write a daemon that grabs new files from the incoming folder and does whatever to it then drops it into the delivery folder for SIMS to deliver. The alternatives available with SIMS as-is all seem inherently shaky and I don't know of anyone who has really figured out a way to 'hook' incoming mail reliably for filtering. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
