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   You can kill cockroaches

   

   Warren Peace, Mar 5th, 2002 @ 1:01pm

   
   

   But you can't kill them all short of destroying the whole house.
   
   Supposidly spam is protected by free speech. Yet there are laws against sending unsolicted spam faxes, so why doesn't the 1st Ammendment apply to them?
   
   Anyway can a programmer exercise their free speech by writing software to filter out and trash spam before it even reaches the recipient's inbox? Then the programmer can exercise their right to free enterprize by selling the spam killing app to ISP's and those running their own servers.

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   Only ~100% effective solution so far

   

   Phillip, Mar 5th, 2002 @ 2:08pm

   
   

   I recommend installing ASK active spam killer on your mail server. When someone sends you an email for the first time they get an autogenerated reply that they have to just click 'Reply' and 'Send' on. After that the original mail goes through as does all their subsequent mail. Since spams tends to be sent from forged or temporary accounts it should have near perfect success cutting out spam. You need Python installed on your server though.

   Phillip.

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   Re: Only ~100% effective solution so far

   

   Mike (profile), Mar 5th, 2002 @ 2:37pm

   
   

   My experience with such "white list" and "approval" solutions are that people get pissed off that they receive this bounce back and have to go through an extra step to email you. It confuses the non-tech savvy people and annoys the tech savvy ones. Maybe if it becomes more well known... but in the meantime, I don't want to anger everyone who tries to send me an email.

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   White lists

   

   Toby, Mar 5th, 2002 @ 3:14pm

   
   

   >My experience with such "white list" and "approval" solutions are that people get pissed off that they receive this bounce back and have to go through an extra step to email you. It confuses the non-tech savvy people and annoys the tech savvy ones. Maybe if it becomes more well known... but in the meantime, I don't want to anger everyone who tries to send me an email.< br>
   Yes, better to have it held on the server and then you approve the messages. As to filters, also trash sight unseen anything that is routed through foriegn servers, spammers seem to like open relays in developing countries.

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   Re: You can kill cockroaches

   

   Euroman, Mar 6th, 2002 @ 9:30am

   
   

   Um, there is a rest of the world you know. Such things as "first amendment" don't exist out here for the vast majority of people. Offshore spam doesn't respond to legal threats!!

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   Re: You can kill cockroaches

   

   Well duh!, Mar 6th, 2002 @ 11:19am

   
   

   >Um, there is a rest of the world you know. Such things as "first amendment" don't exist out here for the vast majority of people. Offshore spam doesn't respond to legal threats!!< br>
   Well, duh! That is why the person was advocating summarily trashing spam coming from off shore. Evenstill, it isn't someone in a developing country sending the spam, it is some jerk in the USA, spam just passes through off shore servers to avoid legal threats.
   
   Ya wanna see something happen about off shore spam. Wait until some nut case brings down important servers such as military or infrastucture service by mail bombing them from off shore. Politicians don't seem to care about John Q. Public until they suffer the same condition.

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