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Re: Filtering Spam (was Re: A Call To Responsibility...)

1995-11-01 07:28:48
Jon Lewis writes on 31 October 1995 at 22:01:33
On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, David Brownlee wrote:

     One idea (if you have CPU to burn)...

     Pipe all messages to a small C program that parses the from
     address and rejects any that come from '@site' where site does
     not hava valid A or MX record in the dns... (Maybe check
     [...]

perl.  Actually, it seems like something that should be integrated into 
sendmail...if it's not already :-)

That wouldn't be any fun now, would it? :-)

And doing so would probably add a lot of overhead to sendmail.

   Dan
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