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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:24:11 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Greg Broiles wrote:
> No, we need client-side proxies (at least for Windows and Mac boxes);
> they'll listen on the local machine's POP3 port, talk POP3 with the local
> client (Eudora or Netscape or whatever), make an outbound POP3 connection
> to the user's real mailserver, pull down the mail, process it (bouncing or
> marking unwanted mail), and pass it through to the end-user app.
I think client-side proxies is really the way to go - email clients are
just too diverse to make adding fundamental functionality to them
feasible.
I think the easiest method would be to create throwaway email addresses -
non-human readable things which you made a new one of every time you
filled out a form giving your email address, and then started bouncing
from one if you started getting spam to it (this would also be very good
at demonstrating when companies sold email addresses they weren't supposed
to.)
I have a feeling whatever Zero Knowledge Systems has come up with is
pretty good.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20