-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Om 5:10 op maandag 17 december 2001, colin gebhart:
> does anyone know if there is an easy way to use the sorting office > selective downloads to only download emails from originators that > are not listed at ordb.org, and approximately what the signal string > would look like? No, without outside help this is not possible. The way ORDB works is that your email-server checks in the DNS (Domain Name Service, the telephonebook for your computer to find out to what address to yell to when you type "www.cnn.com" in your browser) whether the host from which it is about to accept email from is listed by the ORDB. If so, then the message is not accepted, and bounced with an error, so that the receiving end knows that the mail could not be delivered. The way you want to implement this denies possible legitimate mails to you WITHOUT error-message returning (your friends ISP could be listed in the ORDB without you or he knowing it! imagine unknowingly missing the invitation for his birthday :). You can't return messages, because you don't know who to return messages to, and besides, returning error-messages to spammers is generally considered a bad thing, you confirm the validity of your emailadress that way. Try convincing your ISP to implement ORDB filtering, which is IMO the proper place to do so. Mrten. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQA/AwUBPB3MVUtQMadp+KslEQIfcwCgpn4my3rKqBeh5JeOFagi/Z2nm4EAoJF4 YFoh7P3xAIr8vN7HpzOHMIul =yPWz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
