Any interest?
According to Eric Youngdale:
>
> > there -- know if there exists within sendmail a facility to
> > screen out _for_ _me_(e.g. alan) domains/sites from which I don't
> > want E-mail and delete or bounce such mail before it hits
> > /var/spool/mail/alan? Such a capability would IMHO give us the
> > best of all possible worlds: 99% of us would (have our sysops)
> > configure sendmail to reject posts from e.g. interramp.com,
> > and those who wanted it could have it. And the offenders would
> > soon learn that most of the world was shutting them out.
>
> Would there be one central list that is maintained by
> the system administrator, or would each user have to maintain their own list
> of spam sites?
My concept is a central data-base: containing entries like
(ericy: make.money.com awful.stuff.com)
(alan: interramp.com awful.stuff.com)
and the mail program -- perhaps sendmail, perhaps before -- would check
this db and throw away mail that came from such sites, for each of the
users. It would be smart to have the users be able to control their own
entry, but not, of course, others.
If this piece of useful SW were on all the major ISPs -- aol, compuserve,
netcom, clark, panix, etc -- and were well publicized, spamming through
E-mail would fairly quickly dry up, I believe.
Alan McConnell
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