Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

[Luca Filipozzi <lucaf+nanog () ece ubc ca>]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:31:47PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> Actually, my analysis of spam seems to indicate authentication of remote
> SMTP servers through a process similar to joining this list would remove
> 99+% of SPAM.  i.e. the first email from a particular remote server that
> is received, requires the sender to take some action (respond with a
> password, click on a URL, etc.) before the mail gets through.  One of
> these days I hope to write the procmail rules to do it (if I don't find
> someone that has done it already)

Such a beast lives already: Tagged Message Delivery Agent.

http://software.libertine.org/tmda/

Yours, Luca

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