On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Ward Vandewege wrote: > I'm looking at implementing SA.
Y'all are looking to do it in the wrong place, I think. > One feature that would be essential is an automatic 'reply with > password' to messages that are tagged as Spam. This feature is available through other packages already. [...] > I'm interested in writing the code necessary to do this, but wouldn't > like to duplicate others' work. Any suggestions? <http://software.libertine.org/tmda/> This technique for "preventing" SPAM, through the technique of spamming anyone who sends you email, has already been implemented. Grafting it to SpamAssassin doesn't really help. Also, your proposed implementation will have all the issues of a vacation program -- you need to stop it spamming mailing lists directly, to stop it from spamming every poster to the mailing list while still testing BCC'ed mail correctly and the like. These are non-trivial issues to resolve since they are AI-complete and, as such, require the user to declare every single solicited source of email they receive. Use TDMA if you want the feature -- you can even hook it together with SpamAssassin using some sort of filtering language if you get excited, though I wouldn't bother. The approaches are sufficiently different that it does not seem worth the bother to me. Daniel -- People climbing up the walls Breaking all of my wretched dolls Fingernails they scratch outside -- Switchblade Symphony, _Dollhouse_ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
