RE: [Exim] New Feature Request.

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Author: Brian K. West
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To: Nigel.Metheringham
CC: Exim-Users@Exim. Org
Subject: RE: [Exim] New Feature Request.
Mindspring already does something similar... but its not very portable. http://cgi.mindspring.com/cgi-bin/spamlist.pl

Thats the list they block right now.

Later,
Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel.Metheringham@???
[mailto:Nigel.Metheringham@Vdata.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 12:00 PM
To: Brian K. West
Cc: Exim-Users@Exim. Org
Subject: Re: [Exim] New Feature Request.



brian@??? said:
> this would give everyone a tool to help stop spam.. now if you know of
> someplace or that does this with the senders address then please let
> me know.. I am sick of getting spam.. even with useing maps/rbl/dul I
> still get the stuff... MAPS/RBL/DUL use sender hostnames which can
> change at a drop of a hat. I want to take this approach to futher
> eliminated UCE... anyone with me?


Silly idea.  Birthday paradox applied to incoming email will manage to 
dump important messages 9 times out of 10 (remember 1 million to one 
coincidences happen 9 times in 10).

It would run further if you got rid of the MD5 stage (which only burns 
CPU and makes it potentially dangerous), and just escaped appropriately 
dangerous characters.

    Nigel.

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