[65834] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spam blacklist project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Le Heux)
Wed Sep 18 18:54:14 1996
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:19:51 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Alex Le Heux <alexlh@yourchoice.nl>
To: hallam@ai.mit.edu
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9609162025.AA00550@etna.ai.mit.edu>
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 hallam@ai.mit.edu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The following idea just hit me. How about a server which
> maintained a list of people who don't want to recive SPAM? The idea
> being that email recpients who don't want SPAM send their email
> address to the list. A SPAMer who want to check an email to see
> if it is on the list could then obtain the SHA-Digested list of
> addresses and remove them from their internal databases.
>
Such a beast already exists:
A simple search for 'spam' on www.yahoo.com reveals:
The Internet Spam Control Centre : http://drsvcs.com/nospam/
> Of course I don't for a moment imagine that this will
> be 100% effective. Without government regulation there will
> always be slimeballs who send mail to people who don't want it.
>
I think the internet will be better off without any government
regulation. Governments tend to make a mess of everything they regulate.
Cheers,
Alex Le Heux
/// I dabble in techno-house and sometimes,
/// I do that badass hip-hop thang...
/// But the F U N K gets me every time!
