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Re: remailer abuse

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sten Drescher)
Mon Nov 20 12:13:43 1995

Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:08:06 -0600 (CST)
From: Sten Drescher <dreschs@mpd.tandem.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Corey Bridges's message of Sun, 19 Nov 1995 21:21:43 -0800
Cc: Corey Bridges <corey@netscape.com>

Corey Bridges <corey@netscape.com> said:

CB> If junk mail continues to bother people, it's only a matter of time
CB> until mail programs' filtering capabilities become much more
CB> sophisticated. (Of course, for all I know, there already ARE
CB> programs that do what I'm about to propose.) People can maintain a
CB> "do not accept from" list, containing every anonymous remailer
CB> they've ever heard about, or an "accept only from" list, containing
CB> just the people they wish to converse with.

	Well, it might not be luser-friendly, but procmail does that:

:0
* (^From|^Sender|^TO).*(junk|mail|list)
/dev/null

:0
* (^From|^Sender|^TO).*(send|me|mail|list)
wanted.mail

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