On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:27:19PM +1300, Andy Linton wrote:
I suspect that for many, many people they could construct a list which said who they were prepared to receive email from. You could add the addresses of people you email to the list (perhaps with a timeout). You then autorespond to anyone you don't recognise with a "Sorry, you don't seem to be one of the people, I communicate with. If you still want to send me email, go to this web site, fill in the form and I'll let you know. Have a nice day".
Actually, people do this already and there are procmail scripts floating about to implement this if you try google. A similar varient is if I don't know who you are, I reply with a nounce nd you must then resend with that nounce or I won't accept your email... so on-off spamming doesn't work.
I'm sorry, you don't seem to be one of the people.... I wasn't claiming an original thought. I recall Marshall Rose running a scheme like this minus the "go to the web site" bit in the early 90s - yet more evidence that I am 'old beyond many people's capacity to comprehend'. andy - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog