Anti-Spam Idea

[bob at sinister.com (Bob Keyes)]

Yes this is a good idea.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Kent Borg wrote:

> Like most of us, I am sick of spam.
>
> Recently I have been tempted to install one of those programs that has
> a white-list (that it lets through), a black-list (that it doesn't),
> and holds everything else pending a response to a request for
> confirmation.  It seems such a system makes it expensive to send
> e-mail by requiring some human interaction on the part of each sender.
>
> The problem is that I get some e-mail from machines that I do want to
> see: I order something from Amazon and they send a confirmation, I
> have a domain come up for renewal and the (sometimes even real)
> registrar sends a reminder, etc.  I have worried that that stuff will
> all get mucked up.
>
> Then today I had an idea: what if I simply put all Asia-Pacific e-mail
> through the white-list/black-list/confirm process?  Nearly all my spam
> comes from APNIC addresses--and I don't want to block APNIC e-mail
> entirely, but I do think forcing it to go through an extra step might
> be good.  I get nearly no legit e-mail from Asia-Pacific, and can't
> think of any sent by machines.
>
> Sound good?  (Anyone using qmail and have an idea for how to set up
> such a thing?)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -kb
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