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The information in this post is the end result of many months of thought and software development. If you find the information below has merit, please, by all means take advantage of it and use it. This will be the only post of the actual information by me. All future posts of this material will consist of the URL pointer to this post. Should this post be accidentally or intentionally deleted, I will repost it in its entirety again and link to it as needed as explained above.

The information in this post, if widely used, will effectively make spam and malware infestation of computer systems running Microsoft Windows impossible.

Thank you for your consideration,

Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7 (see below)

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CF13-SMTP(TM) / CF13-POP3(TM) Slashdot-Friendly Page

What are they?
A Shareware RFC821/RFC1939 compatible SMTP/POP3 server program for Microsoft(R) Windows.
It was written in Microsoft(R) Visual C++. The UPX-compressed executable file
containing the complete program is 130,048 bytes in size. A Freeware RFC1939 POP3 client
program created in the above manner is 75,264 bytes in size.

Who wrote them? Bryan Taylor, author of the MS-DOS/TURBO PASCAL program FILE-IT.

Why were they written? To solve the twin problems of email spam and email malware.

How does CF13-SMTP(TM) / CF13-POP3(TM) work?
1) It is an all-in-one SMTP/POP3 email transport solution.
2) It is simple to use and fast.
3) It is extremely reliable when operating under nominal conditions.
4) It is hostile to spammers and computer crackers.

How does CF13-POP3(TM) work?
1) It is hostile to spammers and computer crackers.
2) It is simple to use and fast.
3) It is extremely reliable when operating under nominal conditions.

When are they available? They are available now. See next question for availability.

Where are they available?
CF13-SMTP(TM) / CF13-POP3(TM) is available here. CF13-POP3(TM) is available here.

Original site is here. Mirror site is here.

The ideas inside these two software computer programs are hereby declared patent
free. These two software computer programs are publication of said ideas and thus
said ideas become 'prior art' and are unpatentable either in whole or in part.

Copyright 2004 Bryan Taylor -- All Rights Reserved -- http://www.cf13.com/
Last Update: Tuesday, July 06, 2004, 11:19 Universal Coordinated Time

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Startup banner from:
http://www.cf13.com/cf13pop3.exe

CF13-POP3(TM)
Copyright 2004 Bryan Taylor -- All Rights Reserved
http://www.cf13.com/
Last Update: Tuesday, July 06, 2004, 11:19 Universal Coordinated Time

LICENSE: FREEWARE! SHARE & ENJOY!
PLEASE VIRUS CHECK THIS PROGRAM BEFORE MAKING COPIES FOR OTHERS.

DISCLAIMER: USE THIS PROGRAM SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK!
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER!

Note: Your use of this program rewards the creators of the SMTP/POP3 protocols.
Your purchase and use of CF13-SMTP(TM) / CF13-POP3(TM) will reward the
author for making that program available for use at http://www.cf13.com/
and reduce Internet email abuse.

Software should help people, bring people together, make stuff easier to do.
-- Henrik S. Hansen

usage: cf13pop3 svr port login pw SpamByte wantspam

svr - server

Read the post here.

If you were using my program CF13, all your spam would have been funneled into two files for ease of perusal and deletion and all spam attachments (which are likely virus laden) would have been rendered 'harmless' and clearly labeled making it easy to delete them.

I could have programmed CF13 to delete spam at the server level whenever possible but that would inevitably lead to a 'false positive' and a non-spam email being deleted as a result.

If you'd like to use a 'spamblaster' version of CF13 (with the risk of real email deleted as a 'false positive') contact me here.

When I switch my local phone carrier from SBC to, say, MCI, I get to keep the same number. Same when I move my cell phone from Alltel to Verizon. It's bloody simple.

But it's not quite-so-easy with the current simplicity of DNS and SMTP to keep email addresses across providers.

So why bother with using your ISP's email, at all?

POP3 is free. Hotpop is an example of this that I've been using for years without complaint. (Google will, doubtlessly, find others.) I've got Roadrunner at home right now, due to price/performance issues, but if it ever gets cancelled, I'll have no problem moving to something different.

On the other side of the coin, we pay for an Ameritech/SBC/Prodigy/Yahoo DSL account at work that never gets used, so that the salesguys can keep using the same ameritech.net addresses they were using before we moved everything in-house. Lately there's not even been a modem attached, since the antiquated Speedstream modem/router box mysteriously died some months ago.

It's on its own dedicated pair, in a neighborhood with zero available pairs. SBC has informed us that they'd *really* like their copper back, but they're not going to.

I switched from yahoo to HotPOP when yahoo stopped offering free pop3. HotPop works great for me...I get ~1 advertisement every week or so from HotPOP, but haven't been bothered by a single spam message other than those so far (it's been about a year). Oh, and it's free too. Of course I've also been a LOT more careful about who gets my new email address. The down side is that they don't have webmail access, but I just use my old yahoo accound to download my HotPOP messages when I'm not at home.

HotPOP is a free POP3 provider, and we have no plans to discontinue our free service. We currently have an optout option and will be adding several more plans in the next week or so. We have been around since 1998. Also, all of the servers are linux :)

Eric

Disclaimer: I work for HotPOP, I just figured you guys would like to know a free service still exists.

MyRealBox.

Their privacy policy makes it clear they won't send advertisements to you or sell your information. They also specifically state that they won't send any unsolicited email and I couldn't find any mention that signing up constitutes you accepting advertising emails from them.

HotPop.

This one is a bit dodgy. They specifically state clearly that by signing up, that you will recieve email from them, from advertisors. Signing up means, that you are soliciting these emails according to them. At least they're being honest about it.

Any more?

I personally would stick with Yahoo, since I've been using that address for so long and I think $20-$30/year isn't too bad. There are no gurantees that these other 2 services won't charge you either in future.

HotPOP is not currently accepting new users. Please try again at a later time.

Thank you.

• HotPop - These give you a free POP3 and SMTP account, in exchange for "solicited mailings" (or basically, targeted and legal spam). The legal spam is infrequent, and the services is good. The only catch is that you must authenticate with POP before you mail out, which is a common anti-spam practice.
• Asian City Webmail - These give you a really nice webmail interface, along with a bunch of domains. I chose ramen.org.
• Netaddress - Just your average webmail. They also offer a POP3 account for a few bucks, which used to be free but undocumented. I haven't used them in a while, but they were good when I did.

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