1995-11-20 - Re: remailer abuse

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From: Sten Drescher <dreschs@mpd.tandem.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 0565131c5ce6cee021388715162e0f2c5dc4b6a99269c4934384d03f1662156d
Message ID: <199511201708.LAA17184@galil.austnsc.tandem.com>
Reply To: <199511200524.VAA00445@netscape.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-11-20 17:41:31 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 01:41:31 +0800

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From: Sten Drescher <dreschs@mpd.tandem.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 01:41:31 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: remailer abuse
In-Reply-To: <199511200524.VAA00445@netscape.com>
Message-ID: <199511201708.LAA17184@galil.austnsc.tandem.com>
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Corey Bridges <corey@netscape.com> said:

CB> If junk mail continues to bother people, it's only a matter of time
CB> until mail programs' filtering capabilities become much more
CB> sophisticated. (Of course, for all I know, there already ARE
CB> programs that do what I'm about to propose.) People can maintain a
CB> "do not accept from" list, containing every anonymous remailer
CB> they've ever heard about, or an "accept only from" list, containing
CB> just the people they wish to converse with.

	Well, it might not be luser-friendly, but procmail does that:

:0
* (^From|^Sender|^TO).*(junk|mail|list)
/dev/null

:0
* (^From|^Sender|^TO).*(send|me|mail|list)
wanted.mail

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