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Outbound Spam

Posted by michael on from the spam-ahoy dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "It looks like a wholesale ISP who recently went out of business, Ziplink, was working on a solution to the problem of outbound spam. UnixReview has the article here. More information is available on the Ziplink web site here. It looks like they filed a patent on it too." The last paragraph of the article notes the free speech problems inherent in any system designed to limit who can communicate with whom.

2 of 6 comments (clear)

  1. There's already a cure for spam. Noone uses it yet by Tumbleweed · · Score: 3

    See my post from a few days ago on the topic of XNS.

  2. Re:There's already a cure for spam. Noone uses it by human+bean · · Score: 3
    I like the idea.

    The email rules I have set up are the following:
    1. Allow email from my friends list.
    2. All other email goes to spam list.
    3. An automated reply is sent to emails in spam list.
    4. Replies to my automated reply are allowed through.
    5. Delete spam list once a week.

    This is not as good as blocking at the source, however. I still have to pay to transport the spam.

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    *whup* "Get along, little electrons. Heeyah!"