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!