On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:18, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Niehusmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jan> Time will tell. I fear that some day, the only way to use > Jan> email productively is to block all email with invalid sender > Jan> adresses. And I don't know a way do valdiate a (not yet > Jan> known) address but to try it and send a reply. If you > Jan> combine that with some autoresponders on both ends, no human > Jan> interaction would be needed, so annoyance should go down. > > The above is based on the false premise that those who send spam are > incapable of sending it with (forged) real email addresses. They > already have lots of them to choose from.
Of course such a spam filter will stop such spam at the cost of doubly spamming innocent people who have their addresses forged. It's very anti-social, zero sum game stuff. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
