[thelist] Serious antispam measures
Kasimir K
evolt at kasimir-k.fi
Sat Apr 17 07:57:03 CDT 2004
After a second thought:
> A solution (albeit laborous one) would be to every day accept only mails
> adressed to: yyyymmdd at yourdomain.com
This really wouldn't work perfectly, if somebody had a spam bot worm on
their machine checking sent mails too. And it's just too complicated anyway.
> Easier solution would be to require something in the subject or body of
> the email - senders email address would be good: john at hisdomain.com must
> include 'john at hisdomain.com' in the subject line. Or give your friends
> each a password that they must have in the first line of the message
> body. This is actually very good option, as it can be used even without
> your own domain name.
This on the other hand is simple and effective - and you could bounce
rejected mails with the instructions (people wouldn't have to use any
web forms either).
.k
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