17 Jun
2004
17 Jun
'04
10:11 p.m.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
One of the most promising sounding Anti-SPAM and
Anti-virus measures I've
heard of recently (can't remember where from though) is Greylisting -
http://greylisting.org/
http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html
basically, when somebody new connects to your mail server, send them a
451 4.7.1 Please try again later
but note the details. Real mailservers will indeed come back a short time
later, at which point the mail is allowed through, and that mailserver's IP
and email addresses are marked good. Most spam sending software and viri
give up, or wait too long before coming back. The results look impressive:
http://www.phys.ualberta.ca/~jmack/grey/
Sure, until the spammers and virus writers catch on.
Look, the path of least resistance to this problem is as follows:
1) Lobby local representatives to pass laws allowing the hunting down and
physical termination of spammers and virus writers
2) Include in those laws the ability to have public exhibitions of
whipping and/or humiliation for people who actually answer to spam or buy
products that they learned of through spam
3) Get said laws passed
4) Open season
Until these two distinct classes of people (spammers and spammees) are
entirely eliminated from the gene pool, we will continue to suffer this
scourge.
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