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Re: [Asrg] A method to eliminate spam

2003-03-17 18:47:35

The problem is, that it has to be installed on *every* concerned client. In a corporate environment you really want to have one central mail relay server because it's no problem to update the filter rules for *all* incoming and outgoing mail at this point.

No it would not. Although you would not be able to _stop_ the E-Mails from being sent(unless the filter is on the Internet router and is able to block communication), you would be able to track the sender through the use of passive packet analyzing, and probably terminate the employment of the perpetrator.

AGIAN. What if TWO dial-in users want to send each other email? Both have to be online at the same time! THIS SUCKS!!! And you don't see how this all ever could be a problem because you become f*cking ignorant when someone criticises your protocol.

Again, I don't think you've read my outline thoroughly. I said there are three entities in this protocol. Mail senders, mail hosts, and end users. Mail hosts house the E-Mail for end users until they are ready to retrieve it. The retrieval process is a simple authentication based retrieval.

In the case of a dial-up user sending to another dial up user, the communication would go something like this(Keep in mind the encryption key finding section of this protocol is only used if the sender is _not whitelisted_ by the receiver so the only time this would happen is if a dial up user was sending a piece of mail to an unknown person):

Dial-up user composes the E-Mail.
Dial-up user connects to the mail host.
Mail hosts requests the Dial-up user to find the encryption key to the cipher.
Dial-up user can disconnect while this computation is being performed.
Dial-up user connects to the mail host.
Dial-up user sends the cipher key and sends the E-Mail message.

Please do not continue to address me as you have been. I've spend a lot of time working on this idea and would appreciate constructive criticism instead of cursing and name-calling. I believe this method is a _very_ good solution to our E-Mail problems and would appreciate some possible brain storming as to how to work out all the details.

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