Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:52:37PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote:
> OE will let you send it w/o a peep, but the default is to block access to
> it on the recieving side. You just have to uncheck a little box to get the
> attachment.
Wow, way too easy. It should require you to type something long and
case sensitive. You know, something like, "Yes, I fully understand
that what I am asking is roughly as brilliant as drinking bleach."
> I'm sure someone could pipe up about how it's hard to walk their
> grandma/client through installing *zip, which unfortunatly is a valid
> point. :(
Actually, not really. It's raising the aptitude bar. People lacking
the aptitude to do that probably don't know what they're doing to
begin with, so this would work for the very short period of time from
where it becomes widespread to the time virus authors adapt.
> Lets say all viruses start mailing zipped copies of themselves. They only
> have to zip themselves once on the host machine then mail that copy. Now
> we have to watch for a zip archive in mime data and unzip all mail to scan
> it, or reject zipped files as well. :(
And there's this problem.
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