Wave of the Future (Spam)

But we don't have an Internet Caller ID -- we just have a reverse DNS lookup and identd, and that last is so easy to spoof ... In fact, stockholm has a fake identd running that answers 'nobody' to every query, just as an object example, to satisfy stupid services that insist the other side be running some sort of ident. Besides, the reverse DNS lookup doesn't help much with the mega-scale spammers who operate on six billion throwaway accounts. The Amazing Mailhole, which I wrote and use here, makes people authenticate to get mail through the public E-mail address I expose, but spammers still send mail to it anyway (it's just ignored) and people usually ignore the instructions and I never see the mail until days later when I'm cleaning out the spam folder where the Mailhole has routed all the unauthenticated messages. There's no good solution for this other than legal action. After all, I want my cut of the hard disk here and CPU time and electricity and network spent handling mailing lists I didn't subscribe to and can't get off of. Surely I can sue them for that. (I'm only *half* kidding.) -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- You're never too old to become younger. -- Mae West ------------------------