On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:06:13PM -0800, Tim May wrote: [..]
A more interesting downstream filter service would be something operated as an automated site, like another CDR node, except that it automatically filters out nonsubscribers to one of the main lists. (This requires no cooperation with the other CDR nodes, provided the whois function can retrieve their subscribers.)
I have been meaning to do this for a while. I need some help from the existing CDR node operators though so that my node can get the subscriber lists from theirs- a number of CDR nodes don't have open who commands. Could y'all contact me off-list?
If one of you folks out there does this--sets up this kind of low-latency filtering of nonsubscribers, plus inclusion of anonymous or remailed or ZKS/Mojo-type posts--then I will subscribe to your service.
I'll post to the entire list once I get it running.
A more ambitious approach might give options for filtering, at a fairly coarse granularity. Not individual posters, but, say, "Don't pass on any traffic from toad.com."
I'll probably also add my spam-recognition stuff, which sticks a rating of the likelyhood of the contents being spam in the headers. (i.e. X-spam: 100). It doesn't drop the mail, just rate it. What recipients do with the information will of course be up to them.
(Choate can presumably be counted on to start foaming about how I am proposing censorship and that if I would like such a service I should build one myself. Happily, I won't see his foamings.)
SSZ's CDR web page (einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html#) says: <The idea was to have multiple remailers, usualy using majordomo and <procmail, that members could subscribe to and individual remailer <operators could impose just about whatever type of moderation policy <they desired. which is what I'm doing here. -- Eric Murray Consulting Security Architect SecureDesign LLC http://www.securedesignllc.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5