Re: [HACKERS] OK to send e-mail?

Bruce Korb wrote:
>
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>
> > Thus spake ocie(at)paracel(dot)com
> > > solution is to make spamming unprofitable. One thing that would go a
> > > long way is to reverse-verify the sender's address. If the sender has
> > > forged this, the mail is dropped and we get the sound of one spam
> > > clapping :) The problem is that most sites nowadays won't verify email
> > > addresses. This sounds like a good project for a free relational
> > > database. Anybody know of any good ones out there? :)
>
> Somebody out there wrote a program that puts new emailers mail into purgatory
> until they respond to an automated request to verify. After a while, purgatory
> gets purged. If they reply, tho, then the message is released.

That doesn't sound too bad, especially for a mailing list like this.
We could even "prime" it by adding the current subscribers to the
list.

Ocie