Re: Anti-Spam WG Meeting at RIPE32
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:36:43 +0100
... well, I do have a suggestion for a work item on this WG mailing list:
we often have a serious problem when we need to decide an action against an
identified spammer: to decide if the message send IS a spam or NOT. In
order to facilitate the work of any group dealing with spam violation it
would be wonderful if one could simply checklist a "suspect" message
agains a probe and decide if it is a spam, and evenutually which "level"
of spam it is. If such checklist exist and is commonly recognized by all
operators (ISP, Auhorities etc.)...
A very rough example of possible checklist:
Is the sender an existing e-mail address?
Is the recipient list containing N addresses?
Does the message contain the disclaimer "if you do not want to receive
any more, please send a message/vist the web page xxxx"?
Does the message contain a "commercial" promotion?
Is the message a chain letter?
Does the message search for business partnership?
etc...
Could we please try to set up such a checklist? Maybe small little
useful steps are easier to achieve at this stage!
Happy new spam-free 1999!
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