From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 9: 9: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC6C37B50E for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c3po.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED72F43E42 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:08:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (ralf.artlogix.com [192.168.0.4]) by c3po.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2440F1A97D; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:08:57 -0700 (PDT) To: Kirk Bailey Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: A NOVEL IDEA- no more spam! References: <3D8424F9.73E9507C@netzero.net> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 15 Sep 2002 09:09:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3D8424F9.73E9507C@netzero.net> Message-ID: <86it17nsjn.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk Bailey writes: | OK, recently I saw a site with an intresting idea. SPAM PROOFING. | | Idea is, it maintains a list of people who may send email to you. Anyone else | sends in a email, they get one back, explaining it is in storage for 7 days, | they have to go there, put in their address and a brief explanation of why | they should be allowed to email you, then click submit on the form. This | unlocks their identity and they can send email to you. After 7 days, any | message is deleted. A novel idea, perhaps, but it's been pretty much done already. http://tmda.net/ The only problem with the approach is that it still allows the spam to use up bandwidth, CPU and storage on your network/hosts, and does nothing to modify the behavior of irresponsible companies or ISPs. In other words, it doesn't really have any consequences for the spammers. IP-based blocklists (run at the MTA level) are a better solution in this regard. Of course, if you don't have control over your MTA, then I do recommend TMDA as an excellent way to at least keep you from seeing what got on your network. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message