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

D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Thus spake ocie@paracel.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.