On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Marcus Loxx wrote:
First, please let me know if this is the correct way to post a question.
Second, the question is more about spam filtering in general than
SpamAssassin, but I couldn't think of a better place to post it. If the Users
list is not a good place to post this question, I would greatly appreciate an
appropriate recommendation.
We don't mind as long as it doesn't get out-of-hand. There are other
more-generically-antispam fora that are appropriate for in-depth
discussion.
Pretty much there is some software called EndOfSpam made by someone called
Desmond Fox and I want to know if the software isn't malicious. The web
address is
https://sites.google.com/site/desmondfoxendofspam/home
I send and get a lot of email, and I found it when I got a reply email from
someone I had never emailed before. I tried looking for more information on
it, but other than the address above, which I only found in the reply email I
got, there doesn't seem to be anything about it anywhere. I know you can't
tell me if it is safe or not because we live in such a litigious society, but
do you know if this is a known scam or something?
Basically it looks like an autoresponder written in Java: if the sender's
email is not in the whitelist, flag it and automatically send them a
response (i.e. the payment instructions).
It also appears to be a client-side post-delivery tool that operates by
scanning the specified mailbox and *flagging* any disallowed messages.
They are still there unless you do something else to quarantine them.
There are lots of ways to achieve this, not just this tool.
It doesn't appear to be malicious or a scam, but it is an example of one
of the Final Ultimate Solutions to the Spam Problem:
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html#e-postage
Spam is not a simple problem, it has no simplistic solution.
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