* Karl Dubost <
[email protected]> [2003-10-27 11:42-0500]
> Hi,
>
> I have read
>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/12/spam-filtering.html
>
> I have SA 2.60 already installed on my machine for a while a threshold
> around 4.2 and still receives a lot of spam. I'm refusing any kind of
> ".exe". I'm on a macintosh. But too many spams are reaching my INBOX
>
> For example on October 26, I still have 56 messages of Spam (on
> hundreds) which have hit my INBOX. The rest of the spam is going right
> away to /dev/null, I'm not checking it anymore. Lost of time to save 1
> mail on 1000.
>
>
> So I thought about a white-list system.
>
> 1. First mail: Automatic reply with an address to a Web Form
> 2. The person has to identify her/himself
> 3. I check the list and add them if necessary in my whitelist.
>
> I have seen at least one issue. Online Forms for booking, buying
> products which have an unpredictable address when they reply.
>
>
> Any ideas?
I'm concerned about the burden we'd create if everyone starts firing off
these 'please identify yourself' messages. My preference is some
combination of PGP-signing and whitelist sharing, per
http://www.w3.org/2001/12/rubyrdf/util/foafwhite/intro.html
Dan