On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:44:00 -0400, Ed Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> The disadvantage to this is that if your keyword addresses get
> harvested (from web archives, say), spam to that address will get
> through TMDA.

Yup.  That is the risk.

> If you know the full sender address in advance, you can sign up with a
> sender address.

That's a pretty big IF.  Chances are, you won't know the sender's
address, so the only practical way to use sender addressing instead of
keyword addressing would be to subscribe, unsubscribe, and then
re-subscribe.  What a pain!  It would make more sense just to
subscribe with your regular address and then whitelist the sender.

Plus, what about mailing list managers that use the original sender as
the envelope sender?  I don't know if any do this, but I have to
assume there is one out there.  Your only chance to handle that would
be a keyword address (or a qmail extension, which accomplishes
essentially the same thing).

> I've been thinking about adding a new type of address, domain
> addresses, that match on just the domain of the sender address.  Right
> now, if you create a sender address for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", only that
> address can get through, not "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".  With a domain address for "example.com", all
> three would get through.

I guess to accomplish this, you'd create addresses like:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

The two after the domain extension would indicate that the last two
parts of the sender's domain name (example.com) should be tested
against the encrypted code 092a48.  Values of zero or one should not
be allowed.

For filter rules, you'd want something like:

to [EMAIL PROTECTED] domain=2

to accomplish the above.

> Does this sound interesting to anyone besides me?  I'll probably get
> around to doing it eventually simply because I'd like to have it, but
> I might do it sooner rather than later if others are interested.

I think it would be a handy thing to have.  More handy than sender
addresses, which I have yet to be able to apply to a single situation.

Gre7g.
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