spam revisited

[Brian Densmore]

I hate spam. Spam and eggs for breakfast; spam and cheese for lunch;
spam, spam and spam for dinner. I'm sick of spam. 

I think what might be a better solution, is to have an allowed/refused
ruleset. This would work like this, refuse from the spamming domains
unless there is a specific from address that is allowed. This gives you
the best of both worlds, refusing spam on a domain basis, but allowing
registered individuals through.

JMHO,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike neuliep [mailto:mike at illiana.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:03 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: spam revisited
> 
> 
> Hello, I am interested in knowning how the list members feel 
> about spam.  I've
> been receiving an increasing amount of spam in my personal 
> mail box lately and 
> I have been looking into something more radical than a merely 
> an access list
> of common spammers.  I'm considering a commercial service 
> that works with sendmail
> that incrementally downloads an abuse list daily and will 
> reject e-mail from those
> domains of known spammers.  This will undoubtedly block many 
> of the large ISP
> and free e-mail services too such as hotmail, yahoo-mail and 
> aol.  I am quite
> aware that some of our members use these services to post to 
> the group.  I'm 
> hoping you guys could help me weigh the benefits and pitfalls 
> of such a system.
> One thing is for sure though, manual additions to the access 
> database take up
> time that I could be doing better things and it is probably 
> not the best solution
> to our problem.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 	Mike Neuliep
> 
> 
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