On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:14:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:00:55PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > In any case, I think AJ's solution is pretty good and is worth > > pursuing. > > For those on the list who don't follow -private, it was something to the > effect of: > > When a new mail comes in: > > if from/sender is a subscriber: > send it on > if from/sender is in whitelist: > send it on > otherwise: > store message for up to 48 hours > send challenge to from/sender > [ if valid response is received: > add from/sender to whitelist > send message > ] > > The challenge/response should probably be the same sort of thing you get > for subscriptions. This'd allow people who send mail from an address > other than what they subscribe from to cope fairly easily, as long as > they're posting from a real address (or can add the appropriate headers > to point to a real address). I've still an unanswered question: Who should manage this? The nl.linux.org site (which also hosts a lot of other free software related sites) have a very good spamfiltering software, see http://spamfilter.nl.linux.org for details. I think it's worth a look. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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