Adam Hardy wrote: > A few days back I asked whether anyone had heard of a spam IP blacklist > filter maintained by a community of spam 'reporters' who submit spam > emails to the server. Each reporter has their own 'effectiveness rating' > and once enough 'effective people' report the spam, the email was scanned > for the advertising website IP and this went into the filter applied to > all incoming mail. > > Admittedly it wouldn't catch image spam advertising hot stocks, but it > would certainly take out the others and seems to me to be a better bet > than dynamic filters. > > I think something like this exists already but I haven't been able to find > it on the net. I did find a few other commercial spam filters who now spam > me with their advertising!
Such a system is implemented by spamcop (www.spamcop.net). Their block list, known as SCBL (spamcop blocklist) gives you a list of IP addresses which are spewing spam on the internet. You can then use it for blocking/filtering your email by comparing the originating IP address of the received email against the SCBL. The SCBL is completely automatic in the sense that the IP addresses are removed/added depending on whether that machine is not sending/sending spam. SCBL is available for free for general public. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
