At 7:37 -0500 8/2/2001, Karl Schmidt wrote:
>Checksums won't work - they are already inserting random information to get
>past that block. I think the system I proposed is a pretty good idea. The
>ability to easily, automatically collect and trade IPs of spammers is what
>we need.
>
>The only useful information in the body of a spam mail is the phone number
>or url - but they might even end up putting that information in html
>pictures if you blocked that.
Or as HTML entity codes, so you'd probably need code to render them back
into something useful. (Something having just HTML entities could just be
looked for as is, but a randomly-varying mix of entity and clear character
couldn't.)
--John
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John Baxter jwblist@??? Port Ludlow, WA, USA