On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 hallam@vesuvius.ai.mit.edu wrote:
Not impressed by their setup, there does not seem to be any checking to see if the mail address is correct (ie to checlk for a denial of service attack) and the setup requires distributors to submit their list for "washing". That type of setup may be OK for the bush league but its hardly cypherpunk type stuff. Its fairly easy to set up a scheme in which the blacklist can be distributed with no risk to the subscribers. Simply use a SHA digests and so on.
I didn't say it was their setup was the setup to end all spams :) But I never really gave it much thought. It shouldn't be to complicated to set some up like you describe though.
I hadn't checked on Yahoo, I tend to use Alta-Vista having found Yahoo somewhat arbitary in category definition.
I usually check on Yahoo first. Alta-Vista always comes back with such an enourmous amount of links.
PS Sites that use red text on a white background ... ugh!!!
Ah well... Some people never learn :( Cheers, Alex /// I dabble in techno-house and sometimes, /// I do that badass hip-hop thang... /// But the F U N K gets me every time!