> > problem I have with it is that it would be very manual, and address > > rotation per msg would be very easy to defeat this.
I'm in favor of this because, despite what Dallas said, (1) Many who are really serious about quality filtering could get much use out of this before it even "hits the radar". It might take years for such a list to be used by enough ISPs and spam filter providers for this to attract attention. For one, this wouldn't be something for which you could take a standard mail software package and type in a server address (as can be done for RBL-based blocking)... this has to be custom programed and implemented. (2) If the spammer resorted to use setting up multiple free e-mail accounts, at least that is more work for the spammer... this also increases the chance that they'd just prefer to be blocked by 20% of the spam filters on that one e-mail address and just pursue the 80% that isn't catching them with that one account rather than setting up multiple accounts. (3) For those who did set up multiple accounts... couldn't this potentially trigger "red flags" which might provide an additional tool for the free mail providers to catch these guys early in the process.... and wouldn't they be all the more frustrated if/when we started quickly listing ALL of their multiple accounts. Rob McEwen PowerView Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
