On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Mike Masnick wrote:
> Lately, a fairly large % of the spam I've been getting has been coming
> from spam systems that forge my own address as the "from" address...
Include a random token with an expiration date with anything you send.
Valid whitelisting of From:you@here.net yet invalid random token would get
blocked.
> Those spam messages would get through any whitelist I set up
> (especially since I email stuff to myself all the time).  If
> whitelists become more popular, I imagine spammers will resort to
> doing that for the majority of their spams, making whitelists less
> helpful.
Spammers cannot be bothered to keep track if individual whitelists
associated with a given email address.
> Plus, I'm still not sure how I feel about whitelists.  I don't think I'm so
> special that people should need to fill out a special form just to send me
Of course you populate your whitelist with contents of your inbox minus
spam, and then add manually stuff from your addressbook.
> email.  I could see certain friends of mine getting fairly annoyed
> (especially those with multiple email addresses...).
What's the point of multiple email addresses? They're a pain.
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