Charlie Watts wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Shane Williams wrote: > > >>On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, dman wrote: >> >> >>>On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:13:29PM -0600, Donald Greer wrote: >>>[...] >>>| Basically, the first time email is recieved from somebody, they are >>>| sent a message asking them to confirm their identity before mail is >>>| delivered. >>>[...] >>>| What do you think? >>> >>>I don't like that idea. email is supposed to be nice and convenient >>>and easy to use. Having to register with everyone you want to send a >>>message to goes against the grain. If you want to code it, be sure I >>>can turn it off very easily! >>>
I said the magic word "option". I certainly wouldn't want this turned on for all my users. >>Amen. I know a very few individuals who use this sort of system and >>I've never responded to them. Fine, you'd get two chances and then you'd never be asked again (using the parameters I suggested). Responding would _not_ be necessary. It would just save your mail from possibly being a false positive. >> > > I'm sure that they receive very little spam ... it all depends on where > you draw the line for collateral damage. > True. Ok, since this has been a _very_ unpopular suggestion :^), how about this. We collect potential auto whitelist addresses and then send an email (setup a web page?) where the _USER_ can select who get's whitelisted, and who get's ignored (and maybe who get's blacklisted?). For a web-based system, if we have some sort of per-user whitelist (the current one doesn't work for users without logins!!!) a simple perl/php script can scan through the list and present the options on a form and process the results accordingly. For mail??? Is it worth it to try to doit through mail? If so, it'd probably be something akin to the old mail-based forms used by InterNIC/Network Solutions. Don -- -------------------------------------------------------- Donald L. Greer, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Voice: 512-300-0176 AustinTX http://www.AustinTX.COM/ All opinions are my own. Flame me directly. "I don't necessarily believe software should be free... but if you pay for it, it should work!" -- Me _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
