From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:31:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Dealing with Spam, Part 2
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 >>MailGuard, which can be downloaded from www.fundi.com, interposes itself
>>between your existing email package and the Internet. When a piece of mail
>>comes in, it checks to see whether it recognizes the address of the sender.
>>If not, it issues a carefully drafted challenge, asking the sender politely
>>to confirm that he is not a bulk sender of commercial mail by replying with
>>a specified phrase in the subject field of the email.

A freeware Java-based, open architected client-side proxy (ByProxy), which includes agents for SPAM filtration, auto pgp encrypt/decrypt among others is posted to www.besiex.com.  It already has noCem and auto/manually builds a friends and enemies list (similar to MailGuard).

--Steve
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